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<h3><a name="2">13. März 2006</a><br>
"Funny Ha Ha" (US 2002)</h3>
<p><img style="margin: 5px 10pt 5px 0px; width: 280px; height: 420px;"
src="0603/funnyhaha.jpg" alt="Poster" align="left">
Ein kleiner, billiger, äußerst sympatischer und ehrlicher
Slackerfilm. Die junge Heldin gespielt von der phantastischen Kate
Dollenmayer ist auf der Suche nach temporärer Arbeit und einem fixem
Freund - unprätentiös, unzynisch, ohne aufgesetzte Dramaturgie,
fast wie in Cassavetes' <a href="http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/shadows/press.shtml">"Shadows"</a>.
</p>
<p>Marnie is a 23-year-old girl living alone in Boston and facing all of
the classic existential challenges of love, work, indulgence,
etc. Maintaining humor and dignity to the best of her ability, she
ping-pongs between several awkward boy situations and tries to find
her footing...</p>
<p>Marnie just graduated from college, drinks likes she's still in
school, and is looking for a temp job but a permanent boyfriend. She
loves a guy who doesn't love her (?), ping-pongs between awkward
romantic alternatives and even less suitable jobs.</p>
<p>“Young people are often not served too well by the
movies. Heaps of films are aimed at a young demographic but very few
of them deal with things uncynically,” explains the 27-year-old
Boston-based Bujalski. “If I can bring something like a
documentarian’s eye to a fictional structure then I am
happy.”</p>
<p>Evidenced by his 2004 IFP “Someone to Watch” Spirit
Award and placing on four Top 10 Films of the Year lists even before
getting distribution, Andrew has captured the funny strange moments in
life in a way that is also FUNNY HA HA.
</p>
<p>“I've been hoping for two years that people who don't write
about movies or stalk them at film festivals would get to experience
the wonderful vagaries of Andrew Bujalski's Funny Ha Ha… She
(Marnie) is one of the most simply complicated movie characters
I’ve ever seen… Dollenmayer acts with refreshing
understatement, and there’s eloquence in her
gracelessness… Funny Ha Ha is a smartly observed, unpretentious,
and unconventional comedy of manners… Bujalski’s is one of
the first movies to put such sensitive and true characters on screen
in all their imperfections. He deserves a good, long career… to
ignore him is to ignore the stammering voice of a generation.” -
--Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
</p>
<p>“Funny Ha Ha is really a joy… You see clichéd
phrases like "a genuine original" and "an unforgettable delight" in
movie ads every week. Much of the time, this lavish praise only cheats
the few films that actually deserve it. For example, films like Andrew
Bujalski's charming comedy, which happens to be ... well, see above.
Bujalski gets a great deal of help from his star, Kate Dollenmayer,
who is so natural, she nearly convinces us that we're watching a
documentary… Bujalski celebrates the awkwardness of
twentysomething life, allowing Dollenmayer to create a beautifully
authentic portrait. Playing her agonizingly graceless suitor, he taps
into everyone's inner defeatist with a performance that is
excruciating and entertaining. Each stammer, hesitation and nervous
laugh reminds us of who we once were, still are or even hope to
be.” --Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News</p>
<p>Awards:<br>
<img style="margin: 5px 0pt 5px 10px; width: 300px; height: 188px;"
src="0603/marniedave.jpg" alt="Marnie" align="right">
2004 Independent Spirit<br>
“Someone to Watch” Award<br>
<br>
Four Critic’s Top Ten of Lists<br>
Amy Taubin (Film Comment), Gerald Peary (Boston Phoenix),
Warren Curry (Cinemaspeak.com), Michael Koresky (Film Comment)<br>
<br>
One of the “New Faces of Indie Film”<br>
Filmmaker Magazine<br>
<br>
Special Jury Prize, Performance by Ensemble Cast<br>
Sidewalk Moving Pictures Festival<br>
<br>
Most Promising New Filmmaker Award<br>
Northampton Independent Film Festival<br>
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<br>
<p class="cast">US 2002, B+R: Andrew Bujalski D: Kate Dollenmayer, Christian Rudder,
85min, eng.OF, Ö Premiere<br>
<b>19:30 Uhr, Space04 Kunsthaus Graz, € 5.-</b></p>
Links:<br>
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<li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327753/">[imdb]</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.funnyhahafilm.com/">[website]</a></li>
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