Black Sheep
Black Sheep
| 25 October 2006 (USA)
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Schwarze Schafe (Black Sheep) is a german/swiss black and white movie. It's separated into five episodes, which tell stories of the Berlin city life. A hopeless impostor. An East German couple who dreams of the big money. Three Turkish teenagers who do everything to have sex. Two hapless Satanists. And gay boys who dream of a better world. An anarchist, humorous black comedy about life in Berlin.

Reviews
Muellmann2002

I was curious about the movie since having seen some scenes on the official website. And these were brilliant and promising. But after having watched 15 minutes, I wondered whether this was going to be a parody or if the exaggerated clichés were meant to be plausible. Regrettably I still do wonder. There are a few scenes which - although they were predictable like everything in the movie - made me smile, but all in all it was too shallow to be sophisticated and too lame to be funny.This movie could have been an interesting witty portrait of different subcultures in Berlin - of goths and heavy metal-heads, of gays, of life in social housing and of the 3rd migrant generation. Leaving out the scenes presented on the website only a superficial, longish trash-TV sketch remains.

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matthew john

This spoof of a film is largely badly acted, containing grotesque OTT performances from seemingly amateur actors, and a distinct lack of embarrassment from the professional ones.The only decent performance, by the guy playing the overweight goth-turned-Satan-worshipper was totally spoilt by him participating in the most offensive, vile and unnecessary scene in the history of cinema (where a teenager buggers his own, comatose grandmother), nearly erasing the beautifully understated way in which he approached the character's tender relationship with her before this incident from my memory and rendering his participation in this farce of a film useless.At this point, I had to walk out of the cinema.Please, save your money and your moral integrity by boycotting this utter turkey!

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meppico

I saw the movie yesterday in the cinema. I was surprised to find it was only for people 18 years and over. Hey look how independent we are! We show really weird and disgusting stuff (because this happens in Berlin all the time).I wonder why so many people had a credit for the script. The small stories are all sooo exaggerated. No one has a real job in this film, how do they pay their bills? I guess there is no real message. It seemed to be a project to fill a boring summer.Final hint: Do not watch it on a big screen in the cinema, the b/w digital quality sucks! Rather wait for the DVD and see if you can laugh about it.

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leaningt

This is dirty, filthy and frenzied cinema, with an array of cataclysmic characters, hell-bent on creating a modern cult classic. The foul-stench of comical entertainment pollutes the air, but smells of fresh originality. The film's five ludicrous story lines brings the viewer close encounters of the worst kind of Berlin inhabitants, including Satan worshippers, sexually-frustrated teenagers, a drunk lottery winner and a foulmouthed tour guide. The vulgarity of it all will prompt the odd nauseous belch from audience members, but the humour outweighs the crudeness and Oliver Rihs' black and white film blinds with comic crudity and colour. Black Sheep may not break the bank at the Box-Office, but it is almost certain to cause a stir in DVD sales.

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