[Spacemovie] Funny Ha Ha Mo. 13.Maerz 19:30

[spacemovie at mur.at]

Wie schon das letzte mal versprochen, begeben wir uns mit in den
nächsten Space Movie Filmen nach den großen Dramen zu weniger
spektakuläreren Themen, die uns bis nach den Sommer beschäftigen werden.

"Funny Ha Ha" (US 2002)

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' legendärem "Shadows", dem Begründer des Independent Cinemas.
Das Slacker Genre nannte man früher Cinema Verité. Angeblich
improvisiert, einfach, billig, lebensnah.
Regisseur Andrew Bujalski erster Film wird in der Tat oft mit Cassavetes
verglichen. Und immer öfter wird nicht mehr bei Richard Linklater,
sondern vor allem nach dem ähnlichen großen "Erfolg" seines zweiten
Films "Mutual Appreciation" wird bei Bujalski die Cassavetes Karte
ausgespielt. Sogar auf Wikipedia. Das hat er in seiner Bescheidenhait
nicht verdient. Jedenfalls gilt er als ein Held des "echten" US
Independent Cinemas, denen Sundance auch schon zu kommerzialisiert ist.

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...

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.

“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.”

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.

“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

“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

Awards:
Marnie 2004 Independent Spirit
  “Someone to Watch” Award

Four Critic’s Top Ten of Lists
  Amy Taubin (Film Comment), Gerald Peary (Boston Phoenix), Warren Curry
(Cinemaspeak.com), Michael Koresky (Film Comment)

One of the “New Faces of Indie Film”
  Filmmaker Magazine

Special Jury Prize, Performance by Ensemble Cast
  Sidewalk Moving Pictures Festival

Most Promising New Filmmaker Award
  Northampton Independent Film Festival

* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327753/
* http://www.funnyhahafilm.com/
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bujalski
-- 
Reini Urban
http://helsinki.at/  http://spacemovie.mur.at/
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