Zoom

Great actors, especially Florian Lucas, breathtaking story with surprising moves.

Zoom has fascinated me from beginning to end, a modern metro story about two strangers with nothing to lose and everything to win. The movie is executed brilliantly and shows two sensational actors in an almost monochromatic world, Berlin, the German city of angels. Zoom is like the "Bonnie & Clyde" of our days.

This film takes you on a journey through a Berlin that doesn't exist any more... Characters , storyline and atmosphere set into scene with great camera moves - quite a new style at the time and still a modern feel ... Great to watch it again !

An attractive immigrant from Romania breaks free from her husband through prostitution, blackmail, robbery and murder. She is accompanied by her next-door neighbor, a skinny unemployed male who is equally obsessed with videotaping the above mentioned sex service worker and with robbing her clients of excessive cash. Better-than-average acting by Oana Solomonescu and Florian Lukas and good operator work by the cameraman J. Widmer can not offset the complete absence of humor in the entire movie. The showcase of the handheld weapons and the apparent nonexistence of the police in the city of Berlin are hardly convincing as well. Evidently, the director (Otto Jahrreiss) was much more preoccupied with lights, shadows and colors than with producing a valuable story.