Berlin Review: Nicolette Krebitz’s ‘AEIOU – A Quick Alphabet Of Love’
13.02.2022 - 18:15
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It’s not your regular meet-cute. Anna Moth (Sophie Rois) an actress recognized by people in the street but apparently unable to get work — “everyone knows she’s mental,” says a fellow actor after she extracts herself from his grip during the recording of a clearly low-rent radio play — gets mugged in the street outside a smart bar by a young man. He takes her handbag while a spunky young woman who sees the whole incident chases after him and gets the bag back, minus the wallet. Anna, meanwhile, is recovering her composure inside the bar, diva-style.
“No more than a kid, really,” she says when describing the incident to Michel (Udo Kier), her landlord, benefactor, confidante and possibly number-one fan. What was he wearing? “A leather jacket. I could smell it.” Michel throws his head back, closes his eyes and sniffs theatrically. “The perfect combination,” he sighs. And there you have it all: the mix of romantic whimsy, camp and creepiness that permeates Nicolette Krebitz’s Berlin Film Festival competition title AEIOU – A Quick Alphabet Of Love.
When Anna visits her doctor — another huge fan, obvs — and he asks her to do speech training with a boy involved with a theater group for young offenders, you just know who is going to show up. Floppy bangs, odd glasses, the jacket. Anna recognizes him and is duly titillated, but it takes a visit to her apartment before he clicks. He is unnerved, though not as worried as he is by the fact her husband hanged himself in the apartment. As he tries to beat his ghost out of the hall closet, their earlier encounter fades into unimportance. There is so much more ahead that is so much wackier.
There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the young man’s speech that would merit medical
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