Michal Marczak's movie about a group of oddball environmental crusaders in Berlin recalls Werner Herzog without ever equalling him
Directed by a graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School in Warsaw, this deadpan documentary introduces us to a discontented Norwegian, the 23-year-old Danny, a former Olympian equestrian star who meets three latter-day hippies in Berlin, that hothouse for the nurturing of lost causes. They're the 32-year-old Tommy, a native of Oslo, and two German women, the 28-year-old Leona and the 22-year-old Natty, and he joins their quest to save the planet. Calling their idealistic, non-profit organisation Fuck for Forest, they pose for nude photographs and take part in clumsy hardcore movies as a way of raising money to save the rainforest. They speak a comic form of English, live in squats, dress in clothes they find in the streets, scavenge for food in dustbins and sing in primitive nightclubs.
Directed by a graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School in Warsaw, this deadpan documentary introduces us to a discontented Norwegian, the 23-year-old Danny, a former Olympian equestrian star who meets three latter-day hippies in Berlin, that hothouse for the nurturing of lost causes. They're the 32-year-old Tommy, a native of Oslo, and two German women, the 28-year-old Leona and the 22-year-old Natty, and he joins their quest to save the planet. Calling their idealistic, non-profit organisation Fuck for Forest, they pose for nude photographs and take part in clumsy hardcore movies as a way of raising money to save the rainforest. They speak a comic form of English, live in squats, dress in clothes they find in the streets, scavenge for food in dustbins and sing in primitive nightclubs.
- 4/20/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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