Sophiiiie! (2002)
Sophiiiie! (2002)
DVDRip | AVI | 640x352 | XviD @ 1251 Kbps | 103 min | 997 Mb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | AVI | 640x352 | XviD @ 1251 Kbps | 103 min | 997 Mb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Hofmann
Writer: Michael Hofmann
Stars: Katharina Schüttler, Alexander Beyer, Martin Brambach
The film starts in the early evening of a normal day: Sophie, a 20 year old girl, is pregnant and wanders through the night to get sure about her future life. Does she want to be a mother or do an abortion? Does she love her friend or not? Who is the father of her unborn baby? Trying to figure out what to do Sophie encounters many people, and in the morning she has come to a decision.
IMDB - 3 wins
A low-budget German reality drama? Hand-held camera? Social issues including abortion, prostitution, binge drinking, and sexual harassment? It sounds like a recipe for disaster, but Michael Hofmann pulls it off. In a sense, he does it by the book, strictly adhering to the Aristotelian commandments of unity of action (Sophie's pub crawl), time (one night), and place (Hamburg). But more importantly, he wrote the script with Katharina Schüttler as Sophie in mind, and gets her to go all the way from coy seductress and precocious slacker to downright lost soul, suffering multiple breakdowns along the way. "Sophiiiie!" is a one-woman show, and Katharina Schüttler's shattering performance makes it believable and appealing. She displays a wide range of personality traits and mental states without making Sophie a showcase of her acting abilities. Thanks to her talent and courage, the idea of compressing her character's inner life into the encounters and emotions of a single night doesn't feel forced at all. It's hard on the audience though. Apart from minor acts of kindness by random strangers, life is dealing Sophie pretty shitty cards.
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Sophiiiie! (2002)
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