Stroszek
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
- signature
Sombre, measured, measured drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
Our read · Stroszek (1977) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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