Stratosphere Girl

Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

2004

90 Min

Color

1.85:1

Japanese, English, Dutch

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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PROD Karl Baumgartner, Christoph Friedel

CAST Chloé Winkel, Jon Yang, Rebecca R. Palmer, Tuva Novotny, Tara Elders, Linda Steinhoff, Filip Peeters, Togo Igawa

Enter a dark, dangerous world where the lines between reality and fantasy are blurred. Angela is 18, a stunning Dutch blonde, a comic illustrator, and bored with life. Eager for adventure, she moves to Tokyo to become a bar hostess for Asian men who like Western women. An innocent in this sexual underworld, she confronts sleazy customers, jealous co-workers and a mystery: the disappearance of a former hostess. As she discovers clues, she sketches them out in comic-strip style, and slowly begins to confuse what she knows with what she draws. Hauntingly stylized and feverishly sensual, this English-language film mixes film noir with anime to create a disturbing dream world that is mesmerizing to the final, astonishing frame. –TLA Releasing

Director

Matthias X. Oberg

M. X. Oberg was born in 1969 in Hamburg and made three short films before shooting the feature “Under the Milky Way” (“Unter der Milchstrasse”, 1996) which was shown at many film festivals worldwide. In 1999, he made his first international feature film “Undertaker’s Paradise” (“Ein Todsicheres Geschaeft”), shot on location in Great Britain. In summer 2002, he directed the modern drama “The Stratosphere Girl” (2003), a story that takes place in Tokyo and Cologne. —filmportal.de