A shy trainee massage therapist at a luxury hotel on the German coast strikes up a very unusual friendship with a loud, no-nonsense apprentice from the kitchen in Love Steaks, the second feature of precocious filmmaker Jakob Lass (the film school he attends, Konrad Wolf, produced this low-budget project).Love Steaks 2014 Full Movie Download
The first film of what could potentially become a new filmmaking movement — called Fogma, with a clear wink to Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 manifesto that kicked off a renaissance in Danish cinema — Love Steaks combines improvisation in scenes with a planned overall narrative structure and introduces two professional actors into an actual hotel environment, with the establishment’s real personnel in all the supporting roles. This combination of planning and reliance on experience on the one hand and provoked spontaneity on the other infuses the entire project with a remarkable energy that suggests anything could happen while ensuring the entire enterprise doesn’t derail.The film won awards at the recent Slamdance, Max Ophuls and Saas-Fee film festivals, was a surprise best film nominee at the Lolas, the German Oscars, and opened commercially in Germany March 27. Festivals and distributors offshore showcasing new talent will love this.Spindly and maladroit Clemens (Franz Rogowski) is both timid and homeless when he arrives at the luxury resort where he’ll start his apprenticeship and where he’s allowed to sleep on a mattress in the laundry room. Besides learning about massage techniques and bodily energies, he’s assigned to keep the wellness area clean, which provides the film with some of its most uproarious moments of slapstick, as Clemens repeatedly slips on the wet floors of his own creation.In the hotel restaurant’s kitchen works Lara (Lana Cooper), who likes to joke and prance about with her kitchen colleagues, much to the dismay of her superiors. Her loud, exaggeratedly happy-happy façade almost manages to hide the fact that’s she’s got a serious drinking problem.