DIE VORLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM (1975) (THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM)
Walked out. Music archaic. Plenty of scenes disturbing: coerced undressing, sexist and intimate questions and remarks every few minutes in the first half an hour. The toilet covered in vomit truly sickening.Watchable. Starts with a healthy young man defending his handicapped brother from a therapy. The movie takes a different route you'd think it will and quickly turns out to be a criminal comedy with lots of dark humour to the rhythm of really good electro music. Robert Pattinson doesn't resemble a suave vampire in the tiniest bit. He's streetwise, able to talk to everyone. There's a tongue-in-cheek scene of him watching his own bank robbery on the news while wearing a security jacket. It's totally crazy, a bit like in "Trainspotting" but without a narrator, very American in the way the police are shown. At one point perspective shifts superficially: first a criminal tells a criminal alcoholic off for being a bum, then the latter talks about the first as of someone unhinged. Fun, though dark and none of the protagonists have a good time with the troubles they get into and the unhinged individuals they encounter.
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