FILM |
Rebels With No Cause |
| | Europeans who feel they are living |
| in a post-idealist world. They want |
| something to believe in, to fight for |
| - they’re just not sure what that is, |
| and their struggle leaves them |
| feeling lost. |
| At times action-packed, at |
| others humorous, the film follows |
ANGST ANEW: A refreshing view | | the trio to a climax at a secluded |
of depressed Germans pondering | | mountainside retreat, where they |
life | | have ended up with a hostage - |
| | businessman Herr Hardenberg - |
AN UPPER-CLASS GERMAN | | after a botched break-in at his |
family arrives home from | | house. The three begin to connect |
vacation to find life not | | with their captive, and in turn, |
quite as they left it: their furniture | | learn about themselves. A former |
has been piled up in the middle of | | idealist who once hoped to change |
one room, their porcelain soldier | | the world himself, Hardenberg |
collection has been dumped in the | | gives them a preview of their |
bidet and the stereo is tucked | | future. “You hardly notice,” he |
neatly on the shelf - of the | | explains, “then one day, to your |
refrigerator. A note left by the | | surprise, at the polls you vote |
intruders, who have stolen | | conservative.” Thanks to |
nothing, reads, “Your Days of | | Weingarten’s crisp editing, the |
Plenty are Numbered.” So begins | | sharp textured cinematography |
German director Hans | | and his development of the |
Weingarten’s new film, “The | | principal characters, you’ll leave |
Edukators,” a tale of three | | “The Edukators” feeling much like |
disillusioned twenty-something | | the youths do when they leave the |
Berliners who rebel against those | | mountain - as if you’ve never |
evils of modern society - | | contemplated the bitter truth of |
capitalism, globalization and | | reality before. |
yuppies. Through the personalities | | |
of Peter, his girlfriend Jule, and | | GINANNE BROWNELL |
Jan, Weingarten captures the | | |
dissatisfaction of a generation of | | Newsweek |