We made love, but we didn’t love each other. We declared war on each other and lost it. We broke up, but we stayed together. We hugged each other and called it a love poem. But none Breakups of couples in love occur everywhere and always. Everyone experiences pain in their own way. The film “Sharks of the Feather” (it is not clear why it is so called, in the original it is “Solo Album”, translators!) tells one such story.
Young music critic Ben has a stable job, loyal friends and is in love with Katarina. But it happens that he lets the girl down and she is very disappointed in him - so much that he breaks ties with him, and Ben develops for himself the rules of "forgetting" the ex, hoping that the agony will pass. And before us is another not quite standard melodrama about the fact that as a person does not kill the memories of the novel - feelings will make themselves felt.
Only here is the difference between the "Shark of the pen" and the ordinary romcom in several weighty "but":
(a) Production - Germany. In Hollywood, the film would be exaggerated, in this case it is nice to get acquainted with a purely German view of the problem;
B) the director added a lot of unattached light humor to the plot, which made the movie not tragic and at the same time not overstated comic shade;
B) a good presentation of events, thoughts of the main character, non-standard display of scenes that are a little ordinary in themselves, although they easily managed to find a “highlight”.
Whether the heroes are waiting for a happy ending is unknown, but one can guess that sooner or later all this life farce will reach a logical point. And no matter how much Ben suffered from lost love, no matter what stupid actions he committed, no matter what losses he endured, Katarina did not get cold to him, did not become alien and impartial.
There will be no sublime sadness or cruel love drama. This is just another story of a relationship that doesn’t end with a breakup. This is the life of the Hereafter, and it is not to be looked upon by the humiliated. Then in any seemingly invincible trifle or global disaster you will find even something funny, amusing and interesting, as Gregor Schnitzler found and showed us.
7 out of 10