SWEET THING

SWEET THING

Sweet Thing. USA 2020. Director: Alexandre Rockwell. Screenplay: Alexandre Rockwell. 91 Min. Feature film. OV w/Eng. sub and Ger. voice-over Suitable from age 12. Recommended from age 14.

A FAIRYTALE-LIKE SOCIAL DRAMA ABOUT TWO SIBLINGS ON AN ODYSSEY

Life is like a rol­ler-coas­ter ride for 15-year-old Billie and her youn­ger brot­her Nico. Nothing gives them secu­ri­ty. Of cour­se, their father loves them but when he drinks too much, he is unpre­dic­ta­ble. Their mother is even less relia­ble. But Billie and Nico do not give up their dream of a beau­tiful youth. They run away with the neigh­bor Malik, expe­ri­ence adven­tures and make fri­ends, until rea­li­ty cat­ches up with them again. In grai­ny black and white, occa­sio­nal­ly inter­rupt­ed by color sequen­ces and shot with many clo­se-ups, US inde­pen­dent direc­tor Alexandre Rockwell tells the sto­ry of two siblings who must defy a life of pover­ty. They draw hope from the power of love and poetry.

Available in cine­mas | via Video-on-Demand (VoD) exclu­si­ve­ly for school clas­ses and groups

FR, 1.10. | 8:45 a.m. | Cinéma
SU, 3.10. | 4 p.m. | DFF Cinema

Extras and Mitmischen!

LUCAS im Kino

Educational material

Filmography

2020 SWEET THING | 2016 LITTLE FEET | 2011 PETE SMALLS IS DEAD | 2002 13 MOONS | 1992 IN THE SOUP

Biography

Alexandre Rockwell has been clo­se­ly asso­cia­ted with the American inde­pen­dent film sce­ne for many years. He has alre­a­dy work­ed with film­ma­kers such as Quentin Tarantino. Both his films LITTLE FEET, released in 2016, and SWEET THING star his own children.

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