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Stratosphere Girl

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Original title

Stratosphere Girl

Year

2004

Running time

90 min.

Country

Netherlands

Director

Matthias X. Oberg

Screenwriter

Matthias X. Oberg

Cast

Music

Nils Petter Molvær

Cinematography

Michael Mieke

Producer

Co-production Netherlands-Germany-Italy-Switzerland-United Kingdom;

Clubdeal, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Motel Films, Palomar Films, Pandora Film, Paradis Film, Schweizer Fernsehen (FS), SRG

Genre

Drama. Mystery

Synopsis

In this imaginative independent drama, Angela (Chloé Winkel) is a French art student living in Germany who loves to draw comics and creates elaborate tales drawn in a soft and romantic style. One night, Angela meets Yamamoto (Jon Yang), a club DJ from Japan, who invites her to come to Tokyo with him. Infatuated with Yamamoto, Angela impulsively agrees, and is soon sharing an apartment with a handful of Western expatriates who work at a nightclub where Japanese businessmen drink, sing karaoke, and date the "hostesses" for a fee. When money runs low, Angela signs on to work at the club, but when a customer is murdered in an ongoing mob war, she realizes she's entered a far more dangerous world than she imagined. The frantic pace of the city and the violence of her new environment has a strong impact on her artwork, which loses its serene qualities and becomes increasingly aggressive and mechanical.

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Stratosphere Girl

2004

Matthias X. Oberg