The Legend of Kaspar Hauser

I totally loved this movie. It is surreal, entertaining and leaves the viewer with a couple things to think about. It is a great reflection of our era. La Leggenda di Kasper Hauser will allow you to find its meaning for yourself. Silvia Calderoni's acting is completely out of this world; it was even scary at some points. She was able to create a character which will completely blow your mind. I assure you that you will be left wishing for Kasper Hauser to be real (Or is he already?) This movie has probably replaced The Tree of Life as my all-time favourite movie. The music in is this film is also great! For every music-enthusiast out there: You will feel very empathetic with the so-called Kasper Hauser. Please watch this movie with something in mind: it is nothing like you have watched before.

I found this movie after watching a clip taken from it, apart from Vicent Gallo (kind of a fetish actor for me), i didn't knew anything from it so it was a very surprising and pleasant experience for me.

This is not the usual mainstream movie nor even your usual arty stuff. To me it was more of a whimsical movie where you need to fill the empty spaces with your own personal experiences.

Electronic music, Vitalic OST is almost perfect (too repetitive but that it's needed to stress the message), but there's always a fight between Analogic/Real vs Digital/Surreal going on.

The movie is made of archetypes but we have the power to decide which is what.

The camera work is dated, reminding me of post II War Italian movies, that when contrast with the up to date musical references made my brain twitch.

Sorry for the digressive review but this is a perfect movie for me because lingers for ever.

Essential viewing in my opinion.

Very avant guard film unlike any other. Vincent Gallo's performances are unreal good. Beyond any other actor I have ever seen. He plays two roles in this film. Each role as far from the other as possible. One of his characters is an old friendly likable washed up southern American sheriff with beautiful blonde hair. His other character a Sicilian metaphysical gangster who seems like the coolest guy in the world. In that role he speaks perfect dialect Italian with a southern Italian accent I have never seen one actor in one movie add so much to a film. Music is incredible and also the photography. The Kaspar Houser actress also very good. See this film for Vincent Gallo alone. He is wild, original, very cool and very very entertaining. BRAVO.

I like non-sense movies, maybe something like Terry Gilliam does. I came from viewing Parasite (great movie, grotesque and deep), and after 15 minutes of this horrible trash (that's not non-sense, that's empty-sense), i thought what's wrong with italian director? Why this terrible trash? Take soundtrack (great tracks from Vitalic), take the prologue scene (great... and that's the only only scene!!!) and throw all the rest.

I wouldn't recommend this black and white movie to anyone who doesn't like electro music. Moreover, well made energetic soundtrack from DJ Vitalic is in my opinion the strongest part of The Legend of Kaspar Hauser.

There isn't much of a plot to speak but it's not a disadvantage. The movie itself is surreal, often funny, sometimes tedious (as some sequences are a little bit too long).

I found Manuli's vision fresh but it certainly won't reach all of the viewers.

6-7 out of 10