Fabian - Going to the Dogs / Fabian oder der Gang vor der Hunde (2021)

Short notice Kino-Klatsch but let's see if anyone is able/interested in going - please RSVP, and at the theatre, you buy your tickets as normal and we meet up in the lobby before/after the show. (Messaging through Meet-up as necessary). Afterwards the group usually goes to a nearby pub to talk about the film - hopefully we can get back into the regular routine we had before the pandemic.

Here is the write up from the VIFF website:
Adapting Erich Kästner’s 1932 Berlin novel, Dominik Graf takes a page from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s style book, and conjures Weimar Germany with the giddy, intoxicating exhilaration of the modernist and avant-garde art movements of the period: jazz, abstract expressionism, the poetry of Rilke and the cinema of Murnau. All these things feed into Graf’s breathless, kaleidoscopic vision of a society pinched between decadence and poverty, teetering on the edge of chaos. The effect is jarring at first, but renders the past as immediately present. Which is appropriate, given the parallels between then and now.
After its combative opening salvo, the movie gradually eases enough to allow access to the tremulous inner life of the eponymous young man (Tom Schilling), a cynical aspiring writer making a buck advertising cigarettes by day and, at night, exploring bohemia with his rich Communist buddy Labude (Albrecht Schuch). A serendipitous encounter with an actress, Cornelia (Saskia Rosendahl) leaves Fabian lovestruck and momentarily allows him to hope for a better future. Across nearly three hours, Graf follows the fates of this attractive trio battling against the fascist tide, leaving us with an epic melodrama, an edgy, troubling liebestraum.