Keiner Liebt Mich (Nobody loves me)
Germany, 1995
Cast: Maria Schrader, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Michael Von Au, Elisabeth Trissenaar
Director: Doris Dorrie
Producers: Gerd Huber and Renate Seefeldt
Screenplay: Doris Dorrie
Cinematography: Helge Weindler
Music: Niki Reiser
I watched this movie in 1997 when I was a freshman in my university.
Few days ago, I was watching a movie, "Flawless", and it reminded of this German moive, "Keiner Liebt Mich". So I recollect my memories and write down its brief story here(+/-).
This movie is the story of young woman, Fanny Fink. She is approaching her 30th birthday. She thinks that a woman over 30 is more likely hit by an atomic bomb than find a good man. She has a job, a family, a place, and the right skin color, but no lover. She is obsessed by death: she attends a course, ‘Conscious Dying’, makes her coffin, sleeps in it, and performs her own funeral.
One day, she meets a dark stranger, Orfeo, who is a gay and drag queen, in the elevator. After the elevator gets stuck, his enchanting, shouting and dancing make it move again. She stares him in disbelief, and he hands her his name card, which says he is a psychic and palm reader.
A few days later, she visits Orfeo, and he foretells that Fanny will find her man, who is associated with number 23. She thinks that her destiny is the new manager of the building whose car number is 2323. He, however, turns out to be a two-timing man.
Meanwhile, Orfeo has been evicted from his apartment and abandoned by his gay lover, a local TV weatherman. He says he is dying from a mysterious disease other than AIDS. She provides him shelter in her apartment.
He asks her with the half-filled glass, “What do you see?” Half-full or Half-empty. Orfeo leads Fanny to face reality. She begins to see life through him and undergoes striking internal changes. Orfeo, who always said that his friends from Arcturus will take him to his planet soon, disappears suddenly.
One day after his disappearance, she is stuck in the elevator with her weird neighbors. She shouts and dances as Orfeo did. The elevator begins to move and they clap and applause her.
One day, she meets a dark stranger, Orfeo, who is a gay and drag queen, in the elevator. After the elevator gets stuck, his enchanting, shouting and dancing make it move again. She stares him in disbelief, and he hands her his name card, which says he is a psychic and palm reader.
A few days later, she visits Orfeo, and he foretells that Fanny will find her man, who is associated with number 23. She thinks that her destiny is the new manager of the building whose car number is 2323. He, however, turns out to be a two-timing man.
Meanwhile, Orfeo has been evicted from his apartment and abandoned by his gay lover, a local TV weatherman. He says he is dying from a mysterious disease other than AIDS. She provides him shelter in her apartment.
He asks her with the half-filled glass, “What do you see?” Half-full or Half-empty. Orfeo leads Fanny to face reality. She begins to see life through him and undergoes striking internal changes. Orfeo, who always said that his friends from Arcturus will take him to his planet soon, disappears suddenly.
One day after his disappearance, she is stuck in the elevator with her weird neighbors. She shouts and dances as Orfeo did. The elevator begins to move and they clap and applause her.
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