So Pretty

An interesting cinematographic exercise and vision of a marginal sector of societies, although in this case, in a developed nation, its idleness and hedonistic lifestyle may go unnoticed by weary populations. All the cast is convincing, since the actors are hardly acting but being themselves, there is no challenges in playing their own roles, and their actions end as if having no real meaning: most dramatic ideas are solved by reciting fragments (apparently) from a film script. Although their confusion and aimless wandering around New York would merit more attention, these four boys (named Tonia, Franz, Erika and Paul) and a girl (Helmut) seem mostly concerned with their bodies, despite the script is based on a novel by Ronald S. Schernikau, a German author whose reflections on homosexuality, ideology and existence surged in a highly politicized context and conscious conceptual questioning, from East Berlin to West Berlin and back to the East before his too-soon demise, being 31 years old. If you do not mind minimal plot and slow camera movements, if you are not biased or homophobic, and if it shows up out of nowhere in any platform, do take a look. Awarded Best Film in a Chilean film festival.