German Film Festival
City:
Moscow
Cinemas:
Formula Kino Horizont
Dates:
2–7 December 2015
Горничная Линн
Das Zimmermädchen Lynn
Country: Germany
Year: 2014
Director: Ingo Haeb
Cast: Christian Aumer, Vicky Krieps, Lena Lauzemis
Genre: drama
Language: German
Translation: russian subtitles
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Возраст: 18+
Cleaning is less of a job for shy, unprepossessing Lynn than a true vocation, an all-consuming passion, as she crawls under a bed to vacuum the bottom of a mattress, or uses a dentist’s angled mirror to check that she’s scrubbed all the dirt from the underside of a toilet rim. She rarely interacts with others, yet is endlessly curious about how others live, inspecting their habits with the kind of baffled interest generally reserved for other species. She tries on their clothes (men’s as well as women’s), examines the pictures in their wallets and reads the inscriptions on their rings. She even hides beneath their beds to observe them unseen.
One day, Lynn witnesses an exchange between a hotel guest and a prostitute, her floor-level vantage point revealing a woman’s black stockings and stiletto heels, which run up and down the man’s bare leg before pressing down hard into his unprotected foot. Intrigued and excited by what she has glimpsed, Lynn hires the woman, the dominatrix Chiara, to visit her at home.
Awards and festivals:
Munich International Film Festival – Young German Cinema Award (Best Actress)
Montreal International Film Festival – Best Artistic Contribution, FIPRESCI Award
Zurich International Film Festival – participation
Rotterdam International Film Festival - participation
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Schedule:
3 December, Thursday