A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors,
and the characters they create together. Sometimes comical, sometimes infuriating,
always fascinating. happy two takes us behind the scenes
of the tour-de-force performances of Happiness is a Warm
Gun (Locarno Competition 2001). While the first film focused on the stormy, ultimately fatal
relationship between Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian, happy
too looks at the dangers of a different kind of shooting: independent
fiction filmmaking. happy too is not a making-of
documentary in the conventional sense. Its focus is the flip side of the world
portrayed in Happiness is a Warm Gun . With the same
penetrating gaze, irony and courage that Thomas Imbach used to probe the fantasy
of activist romance, this time he takes aim at the myth of glamorous film acting. happy too parallels the Kelly-Bastian relationship with the struggles of actors Linda Olsansky and Herbert Fritsch. How to merge with the characters they play, without falling into the same patterns of self-destruction? |