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December 27, 2004
"In July" or "Im Juli"
Scooley showed up last night with In July, a German romantic comedy / road trip movie. It starred absolutely no one that I had ever heard of. I really enjoyed it for a couple of reasons.
1. The fact that it was in German (and Turkish and English) made it seem more exotic to me than it really was.
2. The fact that I didn't have any preconceived notions about the actors or the type of people they should be.
3. It's a roadtrip movie that goes from Hamburg to Istanbul. That's just cool. How many romantic comedies (that I see) take place in Bavaria and Turkey and Romania and Hungary? It sort of makes me want to go there but not enough to really go.
Story: Juli is a woman who likes Daniel, a quiet school teacher. She tries a scheme to get him to like her but it backfires and he is smitten with Melek, a woman on her way to Turkey. She leaves and Daniel decides to follow. As fate would have it, he picks up Juli along the way and wacky hijinks ensue, or as Daniel would say it lustige Sachen geschehen.
Posted by chip at December 27, 2004 07:27 PM
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