"You think Sweet Goods Marion is cute, huh?" Music Box Films has released an official Us trailer for the German bittersweet romantic drama In the Aisles, also known as In den Gängen in German. This initially premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year, and it also stopped by the Sydney, Galway, Vukovar, Athens, Chicago, and Stockholm Film Festivals last year. In the Aisles stars Franz Rogowski (from the outstanding Transit) and Sandra Hüller (star of Toni Erdmann) as workers at a generic big box store in small-town Germany who strike up a romance in the midst of the mundanity of this store: the long aisles, the bustle at the checkouts, the forklifts. The cast includes Peter Kurth, Matthias Brenner, Henning Peker, Gerdy Zint, Andreas Leupold, and Steffen Scheumann. I really adore this film, it won me over at Berlinale. I put in my review that, "it got to me and melted my heart,...
- 5/7/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Marisa (Alina Levshin, who is phenomenal) is a girl in her twenties who lives with her mother, works at her Mom's supermarket, and spends her free time hanging with her skinhead boyfriend Sandro (Gerdy Zint) and his skinhead pals as they bully immigrants on trains and party with pro-Hitler conspiracy freaks. Svenja (Jella Hasse), a teenager from a great home who is just waking up to the joys of rebellion, slinks her way into Marisa's circle of friends simply to land a new boyfriend, and Marisa makes it clear from the beginning she's not welcome. Their paths intersect more and more after Marisa, in a moment of uncontrolled rage, does an intentional hit and run on foreigner Rasul (Sayed Ahmad) and his brother. When Rasul, bloodied and now alone, finds her at her supermarket job and threatens to turn her in, Marisa agrees to hide Rasul from the deportation authorities,...
- 9/23/2012
- QuietEarth.us
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