The Chambermaid Lynn [Das Zimmermädchen Lynn] - 2.5 stars The moment I saw this film in the film fest brochure, I had very high hopes for it. I thought it would be this year's 'Hide and Seek' (an amazing film from last year's fest about finding utopia through sex and isolation from society). And also I very much like German language films, so I was super hyped for this. Needless to say, I was a little disappointed. The beginning of the film was excellent about a quiet (mildly weird) women who obsessively cleans and explores stuff - then when she meet the dominatrix it was still okay (except for some mildly uncomfortable slapping scenes) then the director took the film to a very odd place that felt forced and then left it with a very ambiguous ending that felt very out of the blue.
Afterwards, there was a Q + A with the director Ingo Haeb. It turns out the film was adapted from a book and the book spent a lot of time just describing how Lynn saw an item and her thoughts on items rather than any kind of real plot and this is why the director chose to add a ‘love’ element. but he had one great point which i found very interesting. may accidently be paraphrased “cinema/film has become people trying to portray a bunch of information to portray a conclusion but I want cinema to be a place with imagination and fantasy”
