Longtime friends Noah and Hakim fall in love with the same woman. Charlotte is a photographer from Bavaria, blonde, blue-eyed, German and Catholic. Noah is Jewish and Hakim is Muslim. The tension between the two friends, the religions and the previously friendly families is thus established.
Christoph Schnee
Director
Franz Dinda
Noah Hirschman
Omar El-Saeidi
Hakim Abu Yazid
Christine Eixenberger
Charlotte Müller
Andrea Sawatzki
Rachel Hirschman
Francis Fulton-Smith
Daniel Hirschman
Adnan Maral
Yussef Abu Yazid
Şiir Eloğlu
Melek Abu Yazid
Nurit Hirschfeld
Hannah Hirschman
Götz Otto
Götz Otto
Brigitte Grothum
Mariella Hirschman
Isabell Polak
Sandra
Ever heard of the bad boy type? The type of man who's sexy yet broody, or the type of man who’s dangerous but has a sensitive side? It’s a well-known stereotype that women are attracted to villains. The question is: why are we?
Many call 'Tragedy Girls' a modern-day 'Heathers', and I do see the resemblance. The film asks the same question that all teenagers suffer with: who am I? Well, the movie answers this — you are your online presence.
The film does not add anything to its own conversation or genre, and falls flat once it’s about to end and must declare some sort of conclusion.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.