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Warum Männer nicht zuhören und Frauen schlecht einparken (2007)
Not what I expected - nevertheless entertaining!
I saw this movie yesterday, as I was invited to do so, not expecting much as I had read so many negative comments about it. I must admit, that I haven't read the book yet; perhaps it would have made me more critical then. The main line through the movie is concerned with the relationships between Jan and Katrin on the one side and Rüdiger and Melanie on the other. Uwe Ochsenknecht as Jonathan (the alpha-man) is brilliant. I simply liked watching the characters, who seemed sympathetic and mostly "taken from real life". I enjoyed the occasional flashbacks into stone age behavior. If you liked watching Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask, you will certainly enjoy this movie and have a good laugh. But don't take it too seriously! When it appears on DVD I'll be sure to get it, as it is a movie that I would like to watch again ...and again.
Die letzten Männer (1994)
Humorous - compared with the other films by Ulich Seidl
Seidl manages to capture the bleak normality to be found in the lives of many Austrian divorced single males. The way the film is formally constructed (instant meal poured into an overheated saucepan before each relationship portrait) makes is more amusing to watch, than most of Seidl's other works. Fortunately I do know Austrian-Asian relationships, that do work out well - particularly the Austrians concerned will have to accept the Asian woman, be she from Thailand or the Philippines, as an intelligent unique human being with her own feelings and not as a personal slave. To be optimistic about Austrian males, I would say that Ulrich Seidl has made a rather one-sided choice of them for his undoubtedly humorous documentation, which is well worth watching.