Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2004 / Little Girl Blue / Switzerland, Germany 2003
Wry, offbeat comedy-drama about a 13-year-old Elvis fan who moves to a new part of a Swiss town and falls for a fellow loner.
Crisply directed, and marbled with a deft humor that places it way outside the Swiss norm, Little Girl Blue is a delight. Sidestepping most coming-of-ager cliches, this wry comedy-drama centred on a new teen in town reps an impressive first feature by writer-director Anna Luif. Diminutive Muriel Neukom is cute as a lollipop as Sandra, 13, who´s just moved into a new part of town and pals up with a 14-year-old called Mike (Andreas Eberle), also a loner. From the opening sequence of Sandra miming a pop classic - her family nickname is "Elvis" - it´s clear the pic is going to be more than just a standard teen romancer. Luif´s precise direction creates a slightly off-centre world in which the low-key humor sits very nicely.
Derek Elley
82 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Anna Luif
/ Screenplay Anna Luif, Micha Lewinsky
/ Dir. of Photography Eeva Fleig
/ Music Balz Bachmann
/ Editor Myriam Flury
/ Producer Samir Koch, Karin Koch
/ Production Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion
/ Cast Muriel Neukom, Andreas Eberle, Bernarda Reichmuth, Sabine Berg, Mark Kuhn, Michel Voita, Marina Guerrini
/ Contact Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion
Zentralstrasse 156, CH - 8003, Zürich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 1 456 3020
Fax: +41 1 456 3025
E-mail: [email protected]
Francine Brücher
Anna Luif
Bernarda Reichmuth
Marie-Theres Arnbom
Sabine Schwanda
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