LA LEGGENDA DI KASPAR HAUSER - Davide Manuli

Dienstag 14.5.2013
20.30 Uhr
vorgestellt von Jan Künemund

I 2012 | 95 Minuten | 1:1,85 | sw | Regie und Buch: Davide Manuli | Kamera: Tarek Ben Abdallah | Montage: Rosella Mocci | Produktion: Alessandro Bonifazi, Davide Manuli, Bruno Tribbioli | Darsteller/innen: Vincent Gallo, Claudia Gerini, Elisa Sednaoui, Fabrizio Gifuni, Silvia Calderoni, Marco Lampis u.a.;

„Eine Insel, irgendwo im Meer: Kaspar Hauser wird an den Strand gespült. Der Sheriff, ein Musikliebhaber und DJ, nimmt den Jungen bei sich auf und wird sein Freund. Doch der Gräfin der Insel ist der Neuankömmling suspekt und so bittet sie den kriminellen Pusher um Hilfe: Er soll sie von Kaspar Hauser befreien.“
[Int. Filmwochenende Würzburg]

“How you respond to Davide Manuli’s wacko twist of Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser depends on Vincent Gallo’s high-strung performance. Herzog’s 1974 film was based on a real incident of an uncommunicative teenager who mysteriously popped up in 19th century Nuremberg, origin unknown. Yet it would be a stretch to call The Legend of Kaspar Hauser a remake. It’s really a tribute to Herzog. Manuli uses the premise as a spring board for his own self-consciously oddball universe—the Old West meets techno in black and white. Set along the arid Sardinian coast, a bleached-blond young man mysteriously washes up on shore wearing headphones on his head (played by an often half-naked and boyish Silvia Calderoni.) The townspeople, all seven of them, see what they want to see in the nearly feral young man: a saint, a leader, or a rockin’ DJ. In a dual role, Gallo plays the Sheriff, looking like a member of ZZ Top, as well as the town’s Pusher, cleaned up and dressed all in white. As the lawman of the land, Gallo endlessly jabbers, talking in circles, like in an improv skit on speed. On a less tiring note, the sketchy film has the best score that Giorgio Moroder never wrote. The movie may be a bit daft and draggy, but in it, disco lives on.”

[Kent Turner, Film-Forward]

“Despite the apparent absurdity, the film follows a linear narrative – the discovery, life, and death of Hauser – and each progressive section is handily divided into clearly defined chapters. That's where the normality ends, however. Scenes vary from strange to maddeningly repetitive; one features the characters literally going around in circles. With an excellent, pounding soundtrack by electronic artist Vitalic, this hypnotic, mesmerising film has “future cult classic” written all over it. “

[Becky Bartlett, The Skinny]

“Experimental sci-fi spaghetti cowboy electro dance film.”
[José Sarmiento Hinojosa, Desistfilm]