2008 · comedy · drama · music
Berlin Calling
Directed by Hannes Stöhr1h 45m2008
A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
Our read: Berlin Calling (2008) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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How Berlin Calling feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want techno culture, psych-ward recovery, and Paul Kalkbrenner on the soundtrack.”
Skip it tonight — You are sober tonight or drug-use and nudity make you uncomfortable.
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