A Griebe/Tykwer Production (Black Out Films)
by Peter Cowie.
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| Epilog (short film) |
| 1991, 16 mm. 12 min. Language: German
A Griebe/Tykwer Production (Black Out Films) |
| Film Essay by Peter Cowie. |
| Isis Krüger also stars in Tykwer’s second short, Epilogue, and again the film is an exercise in chamber cinema that evokes the embittered world of Rainer Werner Fassbinder – not just because the man is called Rainer, and not just because Frank Griebe’s 360º camera movements recall Michael Ballhaus’s similar shot in Martha. Again, the audience is fooled by a prop – this time a revolver, and Tykwer’s tongue-in-cheek direction slyly contradicts the pessimistic mood of the piece, as Rainer and Nadja quarrel for the last time. “Wait, something’s wrong here,” pleads Rainer into camera just before he is shot by Nadja. Indeed, life for Tykwer’s characters is something of a kaleidoscope – shake it, and the story changes, even if the constituents remain the same. |
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