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John Salinger Was Born To Die. It's The SHORT CUT TO HOLLYWOOD Trailer!

by Todd Brown, March 14, 2009 1:09 AM


Jan Henrik Stahlberg has quietly ensconced himself as a great favorite of mine, the German satirist first claiming attention with the excellent and criminally under-seen Quiet As A Mouse before firmly entrenching himself as one of the truly great Swift-style social commentators with this year's Berlinale entry Short Cut To Hollywood. I wrote about Stahlberg's latest with great enthusiasm here but, at the time, couldn't actually show you any of his work. No more! The trailer has arrived and is below the break for your perusal!

Here's how I summed the film up in my review:

Fully into middle age with no skills and no discernable talent there is, of course, only one route for Johannes to take. He will go to America and become famous, America being the place where skill and talent are not prerequisites to fame. All you need is a plan. And Johannes very definitely has that. With the help of his friends he will adopt a new, more flamboyant persona – John F Salinger – chronicling his inevitable rise to fame on film, attracting attention to himself by cutting off pieces of his own body and promising to soon kill himself on camera. His real life back home so hopelessly worn out Johannes will achieve a type of immortality in a truly memorable – and very, very public – death.

Check the English subtitled trailer below but beware the breasts and buttocks ...

 
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