2012 · comedy · drama · german
Oh Boy
Directed by Jan Ole Gerster1h 28m2012
Niko, a twenty-something college dropout, lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to his growing status as an outsider. Then on one fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything changes.
Our read: Oh Boy (2012) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · drama · german entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- gentle
- intimate
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