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SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Good idea lost in the noise

Doris Dörrie has been in the movie industry for decades and "Die Friseuse" / "The Hairdresser" is one of her recent works. She also wrote many of her films, but this one, she "only" directed. This came out 5 years ago and the title "Friseuse"/"Friseurin" is already a hint on this film's tone and it fits nicely that the protagonist says near the end she has always been a Friseuse, not a Friseurin. Too bad English-language speakers will not understand the difference (in culture) when it comes to how you call the profession. The film runs for 105 minutes and features Gabriela Maria Schmeide, also a fairly experienced actress who has been in many known famous films, as the title character. Schmeide really makes this one work. She is incredibly likable in here and nails pretty much all her funny and sad scenes. I am surprised she got no awards recognition for her effort here. Jördis Triebel is in here too and she is a really big star now here in Germany, one of the most respected actresses from her age group. The cast is definitely female-dominant. The only other actress (apart from Katharina Derr) I knew was Maren Kroymann who is the main antagonist this time and plays her part well as usual, especially in the very first scene when she is about to employ Schmeide's character.In my opinion, this film started off really well. I liked the introduction to the character a lot, the way how she struggles with finding a job and consequently the scenes at the "Agentur für Arbeit". Schmeide played it well, but it was also well-written and funny on many occasions, such as the employee's hair color. Grey is only for men. Unfortunately, it got worse and a bit less interesting around the 45-minute mark and I thought this film was most interesting when it focused on the character's professional struggles. The story with her daughter was enough family for me and I certainly could have done without the Vietnamese guys and without the love story that resulted from this story-line. Yes this would have meant the film to run for only 85 minutes perhaps, but that's not a problem at all as it would have meant more/better focus. But I guess Dörrie really wanted to include that as many of her other films also include a multi-cultural impact. As a whole, I recommend this film. It's a good watch even if it does not stay as great as it started.

I went into this movie completely open minded in the mood for a comedy. If you find unbelievable things like a fat woman needing a rope to get out of bed funny this movie may be for you. Although I suppose that could have been for her MS too not at all clear /neither is funny. Also early on it became obvious that they were using doubles for the nude scenes and ridiculous stuffing under the main actress's dress for the face scenes (seeing an implausible lumpy looking fat person in every other frame was supposed to be hilarious?)Anyway about half way through I realized it was a complete dud about the time the multicultural feel good stuff started to spin. The old man at the nursing home masturbating didn't help things along either---how riotously humorous eh?This thing is as boring and colorless as the winter sky in Northern Europe--at least as depicted in this movie. Germany is one my favorite countries this movie makes Berlin look like some sort of future dystopia.The scenery was so drab and dreary I can't even give it my usual extra star for a foreign venue.Even if you look at this thing as a character study movie rather than a comedy what character do we have? A woman who thinks a positive attitude changes every bad thing that can happen? It flops. Dull and boring like the character's life. The staged fake feel good PC multicultural stuff is like adding a root canal to this thing.Achtung! Avoid!!!!

If you are looking for a charming movie for grownups, DIE FRISEUSE (The Hairdresser) is well watching. Netflix has it and I don't know who else but it is worth looking for it. It touches just about every aspect of human life and whoever says Germans do not have a sense of humor hasn't seen this movie. Doris Dörrie took Laila Stieler's script, cast Gabriela Maria Schmeide as Kathi and created a wonderful film worth seeing more than once. These filmmakers were not afraid to deal with love, sexuality, bigotry, discrimination and racism in a real and compelling way. I was rooting for Kathi to succeed and the more she fell or was pushed down the more I rooted for her as she got up to go at it again. Might be too deep for the shallowness of some audiences but for me it was also a slap in the face to Hollywood conventions as if Doris Dorrie was trying to tell them, "This is how you make a movie". I love films that have a universal theme of humanity and that are told through a realistic dead pan sort of humor. This movie is set in Germany but it deals with the same issues most face every day, whether you're in Rome, East Los Angeles, Taipei, or London. It might help if you know a little bit of the culture and history of Germany before and after the Berlin wall fell to catch some of the subtle nuances sprinkler throughout but it is not necessary to enjoy this gem.

An ex-East Berliner struggles with obesity and discrimination in capitalist unified Berlin. That's the basic idea. It is more of a time-capsule film than a plot-driven film. A semblance of tension is maintained by repeated applications of the what- could-possibly-go-wrong-next motif.Is it funny? I think only a German might find it funny. I can well understand non- Germans finding it merely superficial and tedious. The film would have benefited from editing (several scenes are superfluous and could have been dropped--for example, the mysterious postal delivery). The lead, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, gives a fine and gutsy performance.The theme of ex-East Germans suddenly confronted with unified Germany was done better in Good Bye Lenin.For Germanic humor, I recommend Die Herbstzeitlosen aka Late Bloomers (which is actually Swiss, not German).