German IR Love Flick Debuts @ SUNDANCE

Well since Webbie got into the act with his IR flick post, you know the Noble One:smt006 had to come back with another one. But seriously be on the lookout for this one & hopefully it will get a buyer/sponsor:smt030 at the festival.


Director(s):
Oskar Roehler
Screenwriter(s):
Oskar Roehler
Producers:
Gabriela Sperl, Uwe Schott
Cinematographer:
Wedigo von Schultzendorff
Editor:
Bettina Böhler
Production Manager:
Marc Grewe
Lulu and Jimi
Germany, 2007, 95 mins., color

DESCRIPTION
BIO
SCREENINGS
In 1950s Germany on a sunny afternoon in an amusement park, Lulu, a prized beauty from a well-heeled, white German family, meets Jimi, the impossibly handsome son of a damaged African American World War II veteran, and falls head over heels in love. Lulu’s scheming mother, Gertrud, together with her secret lover, Schultz, the chauffeur, and a wicked old shrink, Von Oppeln, do all in their power to tear the two lovers apart, but the trio are only the first of many obstacles that will stand in the way of the couple's passion. Thus starts Oskar Roehler’s dazzling feature film Lulu and Jimi, a stylish, musically infused romance that plays as hot and heavy as the chemistry between the interracial lovebirds.Roehler crafts a colorful, magical world full of visual whimsy, revved up with a sizzling soundtrack of rock and roll, as Lulu and Jimi’s love sweeps out the stale air of the 1950s. Actors Jennifer Decker and Ray Fearon turn in magnetic performances as Lulu and Jimi, a couple that fearlessly takes on the evil powers of a deeply bigoted society. Roehler’s Lulu and Jimi is a sexy and exceedingly entertaining watch that aims to set hearts thumping and fingers snapping as you wait to see if love saves the day.

CAST
Jennifer Decker, Ray Fearon, Katrin Sass, Udo Kier, Rolf Zacher, Ulrich Thomsen

Oskar Roehler - Oskar Roehler was born in 1959 in Starnberg, Germany, the son of husband and wife authors, Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. Today he is one of the most diversified directors in Germany. He started his career as a screenwriter. In 1995 he directed his first film, Gentleman. The film Die Unberührbare (2000), a very personal and sensitively told portrait of his mother, was Roehler's breakthrough. The film won a FIPRESCI Prize and was named the best film of the year by the German film critics. Lulu and Jimi is his latest film.

Screenings:
Fri. Jan 16 9:00 p.m. - LULUA16EN Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Sat. Jan 17 10:30 p.m. - LULUA17BN Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC
Sun. Jan 18 9:00 a.m. - LULUA18EM Egyptian Theatre, Park City
Tue. Jan 20 6:30 p.m. - LULUA20OA Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden
Fri. Jan 23 11:30 a.m. - LULUA233D Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City

 

I would love to see this flick. Hope it come to a indie cinema or DVD. It is about time.

 

1950s Germany?

Does the black guy die at the end?

 

Dude, you are good.

This really did happen. Not necessarily this couple. But, there were Black men that married German women and took them home with them to the United States immediately after World War II.

I know of a very distant family member that fell in love with a German girl after WWII. They married, moved to Buffalo and raised a family there.

I'm horrified that a movie like this can be produced in Germany, but not in America. It's scary to think about.

 

http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/view/flash/37136/

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/lu...jimi/314240800

 

This is rich. European movies are more likley to do IR films involving WM and BF too but nonetheless even Europe beats out America in this decade in producing a full-blown IR flick with a WF and a BM in the lead. That's outrageous and shameful considering the number of established black American actors..

Oh and by the way the black guy chosen has the actual looks of a leading man. Not some average looking musician picked to play the part but an actual black actor with matinee idol looks (which means he better not try to find work in America). When was the last time you saw the words "impossibly handsome" to go along with the description of a black male character?

Thanks, noble. I'll keep an eye out on the buzz (or lack of) for this flick.

 

Does it come over in the U.S. anytime soon?

 

:idea:That's why it's at Sundance now being showcased so it can get a promoter/sponsor for domestic release.

 

I don't know why you all are registering surprise at the Germans making a flick like this. Europeans have always been cooler about IR than Americans. This will eventually be available in the USA if only on DVD or on cable. Don't hold your breath for a US box office release outside some art houses.

 

Actually even if Europeans are suposedly cooler about this they still don't make too many films like this either. If you know otherwise please give me examplesa and I'll be happy to check them out.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVVERI6dAtc

 

I wanted to see that flick The White Masai but it has no subtitles yet.

 

So:

Europe goes all the way to Africa to produce an IR film. And America can't produce one on it's own soil?

This is getting embarrassing. I don't think we realize how phucked up we still are.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0763844/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436889/

 

British filmmaker John Boorman produced another IR movie in South Africa, In My Country (called Country of My Skull in the UK).

Boorman plucked American actor Samuel L. Jackson out of the United States and made him half of a love interest with French actress Juliette Binoche.





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349260/

There is sex and a romantic relationship between the two.

Can anyone tell me of an American production in which Jackson has IR sex?

Has he even had a single sex scene in an American movie that anyone can recall? In his entire career?

Maybe he has....just don't know of one.

 

Ok. I see him with blood on his shirt like he has been shot or stabbed. Any because of country restrictions (which I think is total BS), I can't see the second video. So do you know for sure if he dies or not?

 

Oh, Good Lord. Well, I did ask for examples but this looks somewhat awful and cheesy. I would call it a "Lifetime" movie of the week with on location shooting but we all know a Lifetime movie will never have a black male extra let alone a black male love interest. So I'll give the Euros credit there. Still is this 2005 flick all you can come up with because if not my point stands that Europe doesn't produce many of these types of flicks (I'll throw in "Going South" for Europe's side too even though it's not quite a love story). Of course its still better than Hollywood's "zero" for this decade.

 

I don't know what to fucking tell you, Ebert. IR content was the criteria not relative quality.

 

Has anyone read my threads? I had mentioned along with In My Country was The Caveman's Valentine where Jackson's character had a IR relationship. The Long Kiss Goodbye was a joke. Pleased that Jackson had some IR lovin in some of his flicks.