A Low Life Mythology

2012
1h 20m

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"A Low Life Mythology" focuses on Mana Avaris, an international student at an art school in Berlin, who loves to smoke weed and make art but hates school. The film accompanies her daily stru... Read all"A Low Life Mythology" focuses on Mana Avaris, an international student at an art school in Berlin, who loves to smoke weed and make art but hates school. The film accompanies her daily struggles with romance, friendships, and visa, while incorporating the art that Mana and her f... Read all"A Low Life Mythology" focuses on Mana Avaris, an international student at an art school in Berlin, who loves to smoke weed and make art but hates school. The film accompanies her daily struggles with romance, friendships, and visa, while incorporating the art that Mana and her friends' circle are creating. These are often personal experimental short films that corres... Read all

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5/10

Inoffensive but Unengaging

International students at film school in Berlin (and possibly London) live, love and learn. Much of the runtime is filled with student films, and the overall feeling is of a draft dissertation, as if rather than a coherent story we are seeing a rough cut prior to editing.

The story revolves around a Japanese student with visa and cash flow difficulties, but none of the characters are particularly likeable so I found it hard to invest in them. The story opens with a perfunctory sex act offscreen, followed by a relationship breakdown, then has a disjointed, episodic trajectory until a second, more relatable sexual encounter signals a change in direction for two characters and an eventual (vaguely) happy ending.

It is not difficult to watch, but occasionally feels like background music - surely something more interesting is happening somewhere in this multinational group?