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Bookmark this pageGun-Shy (2003)
Director: Dito Tsintsadze
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From Time Out Film Guide
Lukas is a meals-on-wheels delivery man, new to the job and the city, a loner on a short fuse. Isabella is the girl who picks him up on a bus with a 'Help me' note, kicks off the (platonic) relationship with a confession about dildo preferences, mysteriously vacillates between come-ons and disappearances, and lures him into loving her. Unsurprisingly, they're both damaged souls - indeed, right from the opening credits, everything in this film is dismally predictable, notwithstanding a raft of implausible characters, narrative details and scraps of 'colour'. Ludicrously contrived and clichéd, it even sometimes seems like an extraordinarily absurdist black comedy; in fact, however, it's suggestive of a remake of Taxi Driver by someone who's only half-ingested what the New Austrian Cinema has to offer. (From a novel by Dirk Kurbjuweit.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Dito Tsintsadze
Producer: Selma Brenner
Cast: Fabian Hinrichs, Lavinia Wilson, Johan Leysen, Ingeborg Westphal, Rudolf W Marnitz, Thorsten Merten, Axel Prahl, Christoph Waltz, Lena Stolze, Lasha Bakradze full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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