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Jessica HausnerCamera:
Martin GschlachtMuziek:
Markus BinderActeurs:
Mia Wasikowska, Luke Barker, Ksenia Devriendt, Florence Baker, Samuel D Anderson, Gwen Currant, Sam Hoare, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Elsa Zylberstein (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
De eigenzinnige miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) gaat aan de slag op een privéschool waar ze les zal geven in het bewust omgaan met eten. De verwachtingen zijn hoog en slechts een kleine selectie leerlingen mag deelnemen aan haar lessen. Terwijl voedingspatronen uitgebreid onder de loep worden gelegd, ontstaat er een hechte band tussen miss Novak en haar pupillen. De onderlinge relatie neemt een gevaarlijke wending als de leerlingen volledig opgaan in de voorgestelde leefwijze van hun geliefde docent. Tegen de tijd dat de andere docenten en ouders echt begrijpen waar de kinderen mee bezig zijn, is ‘Club Zero’ de schokkende realiteit geworden. (September Film)
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From a healthy approach to lifestyle, to blindly riding the wave of modern trends, to chilling brainwashing and sectarianism. Club Zero has a very entertaining (in the black comedy sense) and thought-provoking premise that would make for a terrific eighty-minute film, the problem is that it doesn't have nearly enough depth to pull off its nearly two-hour running time. [KVIFF 2023]
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A decent, manipulative European oddity on an interesting subject, where Mia Wasikowska (she looks terrible!) shows students new dietary trends, which soon leads to kids stopping eating and parents being sick of it. Too bad it doesn't go into further extremes and there's probably only one properly unpleasant scene. The finale is quite unexpected, but I could imagine it being more shocking. Not Bad. 6/10.
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Jessica Hausner matures like wine and refines in herself the ability for increasingly precise and black-targeted life irony. Her constant captivating, equally serious and supremely amused circling around the power of manipulation, faith, fanaticism, self-deception, and ideology, which she gradually demonstrated in both Lourdes (my review), as well as in Amour Fou (my review) and in Little Joe (my review), is transformed here into an even more crystalline and transparent matter: it can all be generalized into an attentively observed experience of breaking paradigms - regardless of whether the pioneers of the new perspective are right or not, their ultimate perspective is absurd and unacceptable for the old world. It doesn't matter (and in the film, it remains brilliantly undecided, so only the viewer makes judgments, which reveals a lot mainly about themselves), which generation succumbs to self-deception (or which one more) and in what exactly that submission lies - Jessica Hausner with insight, immersion, and detachment shows what happens when incompatible ideas are broken against life (but which of them is more incompatible with life, whether with the life of an individual, species, or the entire planet?), how much space is created for a whole range of necessary accompanying phenomena, from cruelty through sadness, embarrassment, doubts, fanaticism, wavering, true hope, misunderstanding, deep conviction to isolation, loneliness, powerlessness, separation... Such a model reflection is truly unseen elsewhere. *** Absolutely unique was also to perceive how it moves everyone in the room physically, how they twist and experience it, because Jessica Hausner brilliantly detected and marched through the basic, unquestionable faith bordering on certainty to the entire wide mainstream, touched everyone on the basic existential pressure point and lure - on food and its necessity. *** The music was super witty and clever as well as all aspects of precise craftsmanship, aesthetic, and philosophical aspects of the matter. *** (Aero, alone, Echoes of KVIFF.) *~
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Club Zero is a mildly provocative film with a notable subject, but it comes across as only a very shallow satire that only shakily skims over the theme consisting in criticism of self-indulgent consumerism. On the one hand, it encourages a more responsible approach to eating habits, but on the other hand, it makes fun of alternative nutrition trends. Mainly, however, the film lacks sharp edges, as it doesn’t dare to get into anything that’s truly radical, nor is it in any way shocking or even unsettling. Though it is visually engaging and successfully works in places with the motifs of hypocrisy and elitism among the upper social classes and the building of a cult of personality around the schoolmistress, whose manipulative influence has harmful effects on the adolescent children, the film rather fails in other respects, as it doesn’t exploit its potential and leaves the impression of merely being a bit of festival bizarreness whose introductory warning about the explicit depiction of eating disorders is just an empty gesture.
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Veganism is out – don’t eat at all and you’ll become a saint. The progressive Jessica Hausner again composes wonderful industry exteriors and interiors, this time with an industrial and pulp touch (the luxury house is incredible), and the story delves into several issues: the dangers of manipulation at the hands of a mentor, pubescent self-discovery and, ironically, the increasing adoption of emerging diet trends. Her abstract world of characters with almost Wes Anderson-esque style is playful while being both funny and serious, but it is still not mature enough to leave a deeper and lasting impression. [Cannes FF]
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