Club Zero
Club Zero
Rendező:
Jessica HausnerOperatőr:
Martin GschlachtZeneszerző:
Markus BinderSzereplők:
Mia Wasikowska, Luke Barker, Ksenia Devriendt, Florence Baker, Samuel D Anderson, Gwen Currant, Sam Hoare, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Elsa Zylberstein (több)Tartalmak(1)
Egy tanár egy elitiskolában vállal munkát, hogy tudatos étkezési órákat tartson. Azt tanítja, hogy kevesebbet enni egészséges. Munkája során erős köteléket alakít ki öt diákkal és saját klubot is alakítanak - ám ez a kapcsolat végül veszélyes fordulatot vesz. A többi tanár lassan veszi észre, hogy mi történik, és mire a zaklatott szülőkkel kezdenek rájönni az igazi veszélyre, a Club Zero valósággá válik. (Vertigo Média)
(több)Recenziók (4)
A vegán irányzat már nem menő – egyáltalán ne egyél, és szentté válsz! A progresszív Jessica Hausner ismét mesés industry jellegű külső és belső tereket komponál, ezúttal industry és pulp hangulatban (az a luxusház hihetetlen), a sztori pedig több témába is elmélyül: a mentori manipuláció veszélyeibe, a tinédzserek önkeresésébe, és ironikus módon az egyre inkább szigorúan meghatározott diétás trendekbe. A szinte Wes Anderson-féle karakterek absztrakt világa játékos, humoros és komoly, de még nem annyira érett ahhoz, hogy mélyebb és maradandóbb benyomást hagyjon maga után.
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From a healthy approach to lifestyle, to blindly riding the wave of modern trends, to chilling brainwashing and sectarianism. Club Zero has a very entertaining (in the black comedy sense) and thought-provoking premise that would make for a terrific eighty-minute film, the problem is that it doesn't have nearly enough depth to pull off its nearly two-hour running time. [KVIFF 2023]
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Club Zero is a mildly provocative film with a notable subject, but it comes across as only a very shallow satire that only shakily skims over the theme consisting in criticism of self-indulgent consumerism. On the one hand, it encourages a more responsible approach to eating habits, but on the other hand, it makes fun of alternative nutrition trends. Mainly, however, the film lacks sharp edges, as it doesn’t dare to get into anything that’s truly radical, nor is it in any way shocking or even unsettling. Though it is visually engaging and successfully works in places with the motifs of hypocrisy and elitism among the upper social classes and the building of a cult of personality around the schoolmistress, whose manipulative influence has harmful effects on the adolescent children, the film rather fails in other respects, as it doesn’t exploit its potential and leaves the impression of merely being a bit of festival bizarreness whose introductory warning about the explicit depiction of eating disorders is just an empty gesture.
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Jessica Hausner presented Little Joe at Cannes 2019, and Emily Beecham won Best Actress. Club Zero left Cannes this year without an award at Cannes, and yet for me it's a more accomplished film. But it's true that maybe it could have been a bit more extreme, like The Wave. Here we follow a group of students who sign up for a "mindful eating" course that ultimately leads to no eating at all. Under Ms. Novak's manipulative influence, the students are very passionate, even sectarian, about their project, and we can observe the reactions of their families. The film opens up many themes: nutrition trends, eating disorders, escalating beliefs (thoughts shape our reality, I can do anything if I think it – best portrayed in a disturbing, absurd yet brilliant vomiting scene). The film is funny, but at the same time tragic and especially brilliantly acted by the young cast. [Festival de Cannes 2023]
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