BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY, 2002
Movie Review

Two teenagers decide to carry out revenge on the daughter of the woman who is cheating on one their fathers but to deadly results.

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REVIEW:

Yet again purchased simply because of its relatively cheap price of £1, this reviewer was simply happy-as-Larry about buying this. Having initially written this movie off as a coming-of-age film as the DVD cover had been disposed of many weeks before its viewing, I walked blindly towards watching this and had no prior knowledge about it. Not even knowing that its language was German, I sat down one evening a few days ago and was quite spell bounded and enthralled at what I was seeing.

Kati (Mühe) and Steffi (Herfurth) have been friends since they were biting ankles. Their friendship having had its leaps and bounds, let’s face it whose friendship hasn’t experienced such emotional blips, they have remained bosom buddies for some time now. Both the typical party girl but each from different social backgrounds, it is Steffi’s family that seem the most stable but all that is to change. In a bar one night swamped with 80’s rejects and white-jacket clad mullet hairdo’s sloping down the Armani-model failures, they see Steffi’s father romantically involved with another woman who he is not married to. Instantly horrified, they disembark leaving their gentleman friends in their dust. The next morning, they hatch a plan to find out where the woman lives, but instead of finding her they discover she has a daughter. What a better way to hurt someone than to affect those they cherish, believes Steffi and Kati. But what they don’t know is that the malicious stone they have cast into the pool of revenge will cause ripples of irreparable damage that might seriously damage their friendship as well the life of the girl they decide to exact revenge on.

To this reviewers delight, both Mühe and Herfurth were actually close to the age of their characters. There’s nothing worse in a film based around teenagers that you discover the odd crows feet or furrowed brow so evident that it makes you wonder if a plough might have been left there from last years harvest. Both Mühe and Herfurth give mature performances and you as the audience could actually believe that the two actresses have such evil bones in their bodies.

The direction too is certainly worth a mention as well. Provided by Maria von Heland, her direction never becomes too intrusive nor does it let cinematic techniques, such as a sweeping pan, to overshadow the action. Heland’s direction offers the audience a traditional example of how wonderful the art of directing can be, as it simply allows those in the scene to prove their salt and show to their captive audience what a talent those on screen actually are.It seems quite unbelievable that when studying film at College (the later years of high school) one of the first sentences uttered to my lecturer was I didn’t like non-English language films as it required diverting attention from the film itself. Thank goodness common sense prevailed, because if this notion was still thought today I would have missed an otherwise sublime film which is not quite your average coming-of-age movie but a thriller with the odd murder added in for good measure. Maturity certainly has its upsides.

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