The filmmaker Uisenma Borchu portrays in “Look at me like that” an erotic power struggle between two young urban women. TV editors and film promoters wanted to spend any money for the work – it won the Bavarian Film Award. “As a woman in the director’s professional hears frightening arguments,” says the director.
When it could easily want to do with her first feature film, then Uisenma Borchu had made the story of her own childhood fabricates a writer. You would have told of how they age of five in 1989 with her parents – is drawn from Mongolia in the East – the mother a teacher, his father an artist. As she grew up in the small town of Staßfurt in Saxony-Anhalt as she and her family insulted after the Fall of young neo-Nazis and were harassed.
And tried as they understand as an adolescent still, “why people almost inevitably become xenophobes if their identity is destroyed by a social upheaval “as Borchu says.
Instead of this presumably to confront Germany’s film funding immediately as socially relevant abnickbaren Story, has become the filmmaker Borchu, 32, for her wayward, grand debut film “Look at me like that” devised a Überrumpelungs- and love story between two young women.
She plays in today’s Munich, Borchu itself and amateur actress Catrina Stemmer embody the main roles. In rejecting communication from the conveyor she was told that the film was “too feminine, too sexual, too radical ‘” reports the director. “But when should you be radical, if not in the first movie?”
game about sexual identity
You do not see the two heroines in “Look at me so very often naked to “. Iva (Stemmer) and Hedi (Borchu) live a fairly free life, the one alone attracts up a child, both sometimes take for sex a man home and then send him cool off again, both neighbors and apparently without greater financial worry.
Sometime Iva and Hedi go to bed together and have some time together happily. Then the father of Iva emerges, and Hedi tried their power by beginning an affair with the grumpy old man (Josef Bierbichler). In commentary interspersed dream images you see walking around Hedi between in Mongolia, with very blond daughter her friend’s hand. A Mongolian grandmother warns: “Stop playing.”
In fact arises Borchus art in “Look at me like that” from the patient watching in a game to sexual identity, desire and possession. Many spectators at the Munich Film Festival, where the film last year was responded, surprised and disturbed. At the end Borchus film won the critics’ prize of the festival. “To me it’s not about provocation, but the most accurate representation of nudity and intimacy,” says the director.
She studied documentary film at the Munich Film School HFF and started with documentary works, one tells the story of an ancient, worldly-wise violin teacher. In “Look at me like that” she wants to show how little has changed in the role constraints of women since Simone de Beauvoir’s revolutionary writings. “Especially about how women interact with one another, is hardly spoken,” says Borchu. “Despite all the alleged advances, most women today are no freer than half a century ago.”
Pride, with daring views and always a cigarette between his lips, as in the role of Hedi the Actress Borchu occurs to to exhaust the limits of its power of seduction and its desire to manipulate. Narcissism, she disclosed fooling around with Ivas daughter or dancing in the gym is a good mood and reckless.
“It behaves like a macho,” says the director about her figure. “She is not sentimental. They just take what they desire. Rough, direct and honest. This is known by a woman rather not.”
“arthouse porn”
For the German cinema season has dawned “weird women”, the Berlin critic Christiane Peitz recently wrote. “They do their thing, not explain, do not shear are all astonishment that the beating of them.” The grandiose headstrong heroines who thinks Peitz, among other Lilith Stangenberg in Nicolette Krebitz movie “Wild”, Claudia Eisinger in Laura paint’s “Mängelexemplar” and Sandra Hüller in Maren Adès “Toni Erdmann”. Hedi and their harmless only at first glance girlfriend Iva from “Look at me like that” came about through sheer self-exploitation, it cost 25,000 euros are certainly in this movie gallery female bravado.
Borchus film. He has the director introduced the Bavarian Film Prize for best young director, but also a few insults; a television editor “does not look at me like that” called an “art house porn”. Like you about the films of the French director Catherine Breillat ( “Romance”) said that Borchu cites as one of her role models – so far can the porn accusation understand as a compliment. Nonsense he is anyway.
Unlike Breillats deliberately crude, violent, always on the edge of what is tolerable along raging sex cinema never shows Borchus movie explicit enforcement; instead of the desire and the shame of physical union he is interested in the fascinating, inscrutable Verlockungskraft bare skin.
“As a woman in the director’s job requires me to fight harder than a man. And you get to hear frightening arguments” says Uisenma Borchu. Soon they will compete in broadcasters and sponsors with a new feature film project. The plot revolves around the childhood and youth years of coming from Mongolia girl in eastern Germany, inhabited by Nazis province in the nineties.
It would go to the devil, if the conveying people do not bite in this case
In the video. The trailer for “Look at me like that”
“Look at me like that”
Germany, Mongolia 2015
Written and directed by: Uisenma Borchu
Cast: Uisenma Borchu, Catrina Stemmer, Josef Bierbichler, Anne-Marie Weisz
rental: Zorro film
length: 88 minutes
Rated: 16 years
Start: 16 June 2016
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