Looking for a place to sleep, the melancholic girl wanders through the big city. Along the way, she encounters young mothers who celebrate their motherhood as a religious revival experience, finds shelter with a teetotal existentialist for whom sex "is also just a market"and waits in a drag bar "for the end of capitalism". Her attempt to write a book fails on the first sentence of the second chapter, and she can't find a place among art galleries, yoga studios, and strange men's beds. Instead of trying to fit in, the girl begins to see her depression as a political issue
In 15 comic encounters, The Melancholic Girl explores our postmodern society between precarization and self-marketing, serial monogamy and neo-spirituality, disillusionment and compulsive happiness. Susanne Heinrich's debut film combines pop and theory, feminism and humour - and is full of quotes you want to see glowing in neon letters on billboards.
The Melancholic Girl. Susanne Heinrich, Germany 2019, 80 min, Ages 12+
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