{"id":8266,"date":"2012-12-15T21:18:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T02:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8266"},"modified":"2012-12-15T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T14:45:40","slug":"forest-for-the-trees-2003-maren-ade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8266","title":{"rendered":"Forest for the Trees (2003, Maren Ade)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all mumblecore comedies of young-adult awkwardness come from the States, apparently.  This one is from German filmmaker Ade, one of Cinema Scope&#8217;s <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7873\">50 Under 50<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie moves to a new town where she knows nobody, starting work as a teacher, breaking up with her boyfriend (who helps her move).  She is enthusiastic to the point of desperation &#8211; gives all her neighbors gifts to introduce herself.  She dodges a fellow teacher who wants to hang out with her, manages to make friends with a woman named Tina across the courtyard instead.  But Tina has friends, throws parties, is in a relationship, deals with personal problems, and doesn&#8217;t want to hang out with Melanie 100% of the time &#8211; so Melanie becomes more and more desperate and stalkerish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/foresttrees1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Adult life isn&#8217;t going too well.  She even goes to a petting zoo and gets pushed around by little horses.  Nothing intensely interesting happens until the final scene, where Melanie goes for a drive alone listening to Grandaddy and decides to crawl into the backseat and stare out the side window while the car is still going.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/foresttrees2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Pretty good little indie movie &#8211; I don&#8217;t get all the excitement, but I&#8217;ll take Cinema Scope&#8217;s word for it and watch her next movie.  She&#8217;s also recently worked on Ulrich Kohler and Miguel Gomes movies I wanted to see.  M. Peranson in Cinema Scope says this was her &#8220;DV student-film debut&#8221; and mentions that Melanie&#8217;s accent is a source of humor for native Germans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all mumblecore comedies of young-adult awkwardness come from the States, apparently. This one is from German filmmaker Ade, one of Cinema Scope&#8217;s 50 Under 50. Melanie moves to a new town where she knows nobody, starting work as a teacher, breaking up with her boyfriend (who helps her move). She is enthusiastic to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,122,1646],"class_list":["post-8266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-germany","tag-maren-ade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8309,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}