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Review by shookone ★★★★ Liked

...and you think the housing market is just a problem since this century?!

the very definition of a social critical piece put into a tensed, nail-biting, gripping narrative frame. perfect economical suspense, maximal outcome.

Review by ejonline ★★★★★

I have to it, part of me was focusing on just how far up they would let the actual child actor go before they used some kind of double. Pretty far up, as it turns out, and it made me really uncomfortable. The film itself is an unhurried cry for help, both at the individual and the societal level. The individual actions are measured and methodical, but the action as a whole is incredibly desperate. So abandoned.

Review by Jack Russo ★★★

"If we can't find affordable living by this evening, we jump"

A society so free that Phillips are allowed to plaster their corporate wealth all over a public service, yet still so expensive that a young family can do little more than drag themselves up in hopes of finding some salvation on the way down.

Review by maneleeo ★★★½

Simple but powerful, this is filmmaking.

Review by Alonso Díaz de la Vega ★★★★★ Liked

Una madre sube hasta el punto más alto de una grúa junto con sus niños. Está decidida a matarlos y a suicidarse si no encuentra una vivienda al alcance de sus posibilidades para el atardecer. Eso es todo. Ni siquiera sabemos si al final se cumplió el ultimátum o no porque el fin de Helke Sander no es la denuncia melodramática ni el desarrollo narrativo convencional. Mientras la mujer y los niños suben, Sander recurre a la identificación y el vértigo para generar empatía y contrarrestar la invisibilización a la que probablemente son sometidos cotidianamente los personajes como para montar esta protesta. El afecto se emplea aquí como expresividad politizada y en nuestra reacción no sólo se configura el significado sino también, idealmente, un cambio.

Review by annie

We open with a giant logo for the multinational conglomerate Philips. From there we follow a woman and her two children climb a crane, shown in multiple slow, lengthy tracking shots. She climbs because she plans on jumping if she is not given affordable housing. I was not expecting a random short on Mubi to do much for me but I really like how the somewhat amorphous concepts of death and capitalism are physicalized by the architecture and landscape itself, from the seemingly infinite ladder, to the crane (assumedly not being used to build housing), to the train station overrun with giant letters for ravenous corporations.

Review by Chodie_Foster ★★★

A tale of desperation in miniature is presented in this dramatization of a true story. The powerful images trump the intended statement, IMO. Somewhat interesting that neither of the shorts I decided to watch today (the other being I Don't Know) have any semblance of conclusion.

Review by wynter_in_eden ★★★★½ Liked

A demonstration of how the effectiveness of social commentary can arise in inverse proportion to the simplicity of execution.

Review by BootlegBronson ★★★½

An act of desperation depicted with clinical, let's-hold-this-shot-as-long-as-we-can detachment. Makes you feel every ing minute. Very effective.

Review by Diga Lá Um Filme

Em 1985 o muro de Berlim vivia seus últimos anos. O mundo estava em uma guinada ao neoliberalismo que desmontava qualquer programa social nos países capitalistas, agudizando a pobreza em muitos lugares e piorando a qualidade de vida das pessoas mais pobres. Sob esse contexto que foi realizado este filme. Baseado em uma caso real, o curta conta a história de uma mulher que escala um guindaste com seus dois filhos. Ela ameaça se atirar de lá em protesto à ausência de moradia a preços íveis.

No coração do filme há uma clara crítica ao capitalismo. Logo no primeiro plano vemos uma enorme fábrica da Phillips para, em seguida, acompanhar o drama daquela família. Esse início, e o último plano,…

Review by Gabriel Jewett Liked

Really interesting for only 11 minutes, says a lot with so little. Man I need to see more shorts this year.

Review by Amanda Spinelli ★★★½

A tensão e a angústia que o filme constrói no silêncio é agoniante.
O bebê de fato parecia um boneco mas as atuações da mãe e do filho eram muito reais. Sander conseguiu reconstituir muito fielmente isso. Fiquei curiosa pra saber os truques de filmagem e também o quão “mais seguro” isso foi do original.

Precisaríamos de muitos guindastes no Brasil.

🎥 Mubi