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Marta Martin, Laura Antonia Roge, Christiane Paul, Stipe Erceg, Michael Kessler, Richy Müller, Jamie Bick, Jonas Holdenrieder, Christian A. Koch (mehr)Streaming (5)
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Für die beiden zwölfjährigen Schwestern Silvania und Dakaria ändert sich das Leben schlagartig. Sie ziehen mit ihren Eltern aus Transsilvanien ins deutsche Bindburg, um die Heimat ihrer Mutter Elvira besser kennen zu lernen. Schon beim Einzug sorgen sie für Aufsehen, denn Papa Mihai ist ein echter Vampir. Silvania und Dakaria sollten ihre übernatürlichen Kräfte ja nicht einsetzen. Im Schulalltag, mit neuen Freunden, lässt sich dies aber kaum verhindern. Als sich Nachbar Dirk als Vampirjäger entpuppt, wird es umso spannender. (ORF)
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Vampire Sisters is a boisterous guilty pleasure, but because that’s what its creators intended it to be, so it is actually an outrageously entertaining film; I will even heretically declare that it is the unexpected highlight of the Berlinale, or rather the European Film Market. The film is like an enthusiastically hyper-stylised Harry Potter, but with vampires instead of witches, and the target audience is girls instead of boys. Most the of the adult actors can be described as incredibly wooden, but together with the utterly self-indulgent hyper-caricature roles for adults, they form a captivating style that compliments the intentionally off-the-wall narrative and fanatically detailed production design. No one would have expected that a children’s movie about a pair of strikingly different sisters (one a rebellious emo rocker; the other longing to be ordinary) who are half-vampire would be such an admittedly bizarre trip that could elevate clichés and formulas to the level of camp, while also proudly pointing out its own primitiveness and contrivance. The sequence in which an aspect of the plot that had already been made clear long before is presented again after a series of illustrative sequences that spell everything out just so the simpletons will understand becomes a welcome joke, the all-encompassing affectation is surprisingly not annoying but oddly infectious and, when the film’s creators get themselves into a tight spot, they get out of it by tossing off a blatantly crude, Fantozzi-style joke (the farting, blood-sucking worm is somehow not the highlight in this respect).
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