LOVE STEAKS

Clemens (Franz Rogowski), shy and awkward, starts an internship in the wellness area of a large hotel on the Baltic coast. Lara (Lana Cooper) works in the same hotel’s kitchen as a cook, loud, unrestrained, always looking for the next adventure. Between the massage room and the cold store, something begins between the two that neither of them can name – a coming-together in which tenderness and roughness sit close to one another. “Love Steaks” by Jakob Lass, Germany, 2013.

It was shot inside a hotel during ongoing operations, with the staff playing themselves in supporting roles; the film was largely improvised, following rules that Lass calls “Fogma” – the next consonant after the D of Dogme. At its premiere at the Munich Film Festival in 2013, “Love Steaks” became the first film in the festival’s history to win all four of its development awards: screenplay, production, acting and direction. The Max Ophüls Prize followed in 2014. “Love Steaks” was shown at Around the World in 14 Films in Berlin in 2013 in the Deutschland Spezial section.

Shown at the 2013 edition of Around the World in 14 Films.

All films 2013 · Film Archive