A young man befriends an orphaned boy, and they try to escape the world by building a cabin in the woods.
"End of the line!"
These are the first words we hear in Hans Weingartner's Hut In The Woods, but not before we have seen impressionistically contrasting images of our protagonist Martin Blunt (Peter Schneider), first alone and ecstatic in a gloriously sunny forest, then similarly alone but this time harnessed and sedated in the rear of a police van. "This bum's fucking up my pants!" complains the policeman as they deliver Martin, drugged and drooling, to a psychiatric...
"End of the line!"
These are the first words we hear in Hans Weingartner's Hut In The Woods, but not before we have seen impressionistically contrasting images of our protagonist Martin Blunt (Peter Schneider), first alone and ecstatic in a gloriously sunny forest, then similarly alone but this time harnessed and sedated in the rear of a police van. "This bum's fucking up my pants!" complains the policeman as they deliver Martin, drugged and drooling, to a psychiatric...
- 10/21/2011
- by Anton Bitel
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
★★★★☆ The latest in a line of strong German entries exploring mental illness at this year's 55th BFI London Film Festival, Hans Weingartner's Hut in the Woods (Hütte im Wald, 2011) focuses on the lives of to down-and-outs, former mathematician Martin Blunt (Peter Schneider) and recently orphaned Ukrainian youngster Viktor (Timur Massold), who both become homeless through circumstance. Together, they escape to the forest and build a hut within with to live out their lives.
Weingartner, perhaps best known in the UK for 2004's The Edukators, presents a side of German society rarely seen, sensitively depicting the type of existence that can befall the nation's homeless. Adversely, figures of authority are painted very unsympathetically by the director; Martin's former company refuses to re-employee him after a short stint in care despite promising the contrary; the bailiffs that arrive to evict Martin a few days later are unscrupulous in their work, denying...
Weingartner, perhaps best known in the UK for 2004's The Edukators, presents a side of German society rarely seen, sensitively depicting the type of existence that can befall the nation's homeless. Adversely, figures of authority are painted very unsympathetically by the director; Martin's former company refuses to re-employee him after a short stint in care despite promising the contrary; the bailiffs that arrive to evict Martin a few days later are unscrupulous in their work, denying...
- 10/16/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
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