In this film, the latest of a long string of unusual features by independent producer Lothar Lambert, Tarek (Baduri, a fairly uptight young Arab man, moves into an apartment building in Berlin where everybody in it keeps track of everyone else's business. It's a good thing they're so broad-minded, or there'd be hell to pay. Frau Korkmaz (Nilgun Taifun), a helpful female neighbor who looks a lot like an older Marilyn Monroe, gives him some supplies for his new apartment, and helpfully offers herself as a sexual playmate. While not exactly spurning this offer, he is much more interested in her daughter Susanne (Susanne Gauthier). However, she refuses to be left out of the sexual equation. When the rather conventional fellow objects, she retorts: "Don't think in categories." One highlight of this odd romance is its use of songs by Leonard Cohen.
by Clarke Fountain
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