Saturn Returns

This film has caught my attention at the Turin film festival, and I must say that I was happy to find quite an interesting and engaging film, both on the formal and on the content level.

The film is structured in a very special way, where as the time is passing, also the "genre" or maybe even the whole concept of the film, is evolving. Yet, for a reason I'm not sure I have understood, it had put on me in a special state of mind, where, on contrary to other films - in which we "watch in order to live someone else's life", here I constantly felt missing, remembering, re-composing the actions in my head. It seems that by playing with these different "genres" of film (for example, a horror film, a melodrama, a rock'n'roll film), a different and unusual time perception is created.

The film is basically a story of friendship and maybe love, between two women, both foreigners, both living in Berlin. I write "maybe love", because it seems that more than just passion, it is envy that draws these two young women to each other.

The film is dealing, very boldly I think, with many contemporary issues, in a very not-"politically-correct" way, and for this reason, it might get fire from certain people and I think that the filmmakers are trying to ask and redefine the way that we see the relationships of people in contemporary times.

I recommend you to go and see this film. Even if you would find it difficult, or you won't agree with its universalistic message ("There are no different cultures in the world, only different classes", one of the characters is saying to the other), you would still find it very thoughtful and intelligent.

This film is punk, and angry, and is not willing to be nice - not to the white expats or to the brown immigrants. It is full with criticism to Berlin and to Israel but it is also hilarious ! Interestingly it also documented a Berlin that doesn't exist anymore really. The "poor but dirty" Berlin. No wonder it didn't find its way within the state-funded German film industrial complex. This film is real anarchy! Not the usual remake or re-writing of fake branding rebellions. Definitely not for everyone. Definitely for me though.