Eh, it seemed pretty different to the other German films I've watched (Run Lola Run and Das Leben der Anderen being the ones that spring to mind). Probably because it was the only vaguely comedic one, but still.
If you want comedic, then watch "Der Wixxer"(yeah, sounds like porn, but it's actually a parody of murder mysteries/thrillers) or Stuff by Bully Herbig.
Or the parody movies of the seven dwarfs, considering where we are.
Andrzej. With "rz" sounding like French "j" in e.g. je suis. Andrej sounds Russian.
Add option d: saccharine romantic comedies completely devoid of anything to say about anything.
But. If you don't mind dead directors, try anything by Krzysztof Kieślowski, especially the "Double life of Veronique" and "Three Colours" trilogy, even if these can arguably be counted as belonging to French cinema.
Also, the communism-era surreal comedies are awesome, even if one could classify them as "how bad is it to live in Poland" kind. I always wondered how much of that awesomeness would carry over if watched by somebody who never experienced the local brand of communism, either by living back then, or growing up among stories about that time.
Man, I'm turning into this walking(actually sitting) bay12-based advertisment of Poland. What happened to my bitter contempt for my country?
Gah! Sorry about the misspelling. You'd think I'd remember that by now.
Also, thank you very much for the recommendations, both of you. I shall have to look into those. Dead directors are fine, and French cinema recs are great, too.
I guess I mostly want to enjoy myself while feeling that I'm learning something, unlike the way I do most of the time while watching weird American movies. Though really, it's only recently that I've realized just how strange most of our movies really are... you watch them because the director can convince you that things make sense, and then you look back and you realize that you've really finished watching something unsatisfying.
Actually, I guess I finally know what drives me nuts about American culture. It seems that we make a lot of fluffy things without any content, and when you finish you don't feel fulfilled spiritually. You feel maybe a little bit happy, but not like you've seen anything really good...
The other shocking thing is that I know nothing about British novels/film nowadays. It seems like the ranges I've read in are something like
British - 1600-1900 (plus Harry Potter/Douglas Adams/Terry Pratchett, but I'm totally not counting those :I )
French - 1600-2000 (most recent thing I read was probably
Et Si C'etait Vrai)
American - 1920-nowish
Kind of alarms me... America is so detached from the rest of the world.
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