Review of Loft

Loft (1985)
7/10
Pictures to die for, poets to cry for
21 June 2008
Raoul (Andreas Sportelli) and Raphaela (Rebecca Winter) visit an exhibition of modern paintings, but he ignores the pictures and really just wants to make love with her. When the exhibition is closed, the artists and their friends attack the young couple, and in a strangely surreal atmosphere, the aggression turns from provocative and playful into bloody and murderous...

When I watched this movie for the first time, i.e. when it was released in the 1980s on video tape, it was for Karl-Heinz von Liebezeit in the first place because I liked his performance in "Nacht der Wölfe" (1981) and here he plays Furio, the wildest one of the bad guys. "It's war, a ritual", he once explains what is the reason behind all the violence: "You attended our exhibition, but not one of you paid any attention to our pictures. We are our pictures, and they strike back when they're insulted." The whole movie was shot in one location, a gallery at Munich. The soundtrack is minimalistic, distorted, monotonous, disturbing, from a noisy background to the synthetic sounds of the 1980s which seem so cheap today - but it is extremely effective insofar as the audience feels uneasy.
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