Fashion Victims (Reine Geschmacksache)

This subtitled German comedy centers around the ambivalent Zenker family, the rigid beleaguered patriarch, Wolfgang (Edgar Selge), a Willy Lomanesque salesman for over-40 hausfrau passé fashion, his spouse Erika (Franziska Walser) exhausted by a static marriage, and Karsten (Florian Bartholomäi), their son, an ungrateful and ambiguous youth liberated for a pre-collegiate summer fling without a worldly care.Changing times and finances intercede. Steven Brookmüller (Roman Knižka), the new salesman competes with younger-trending outfits for sparse commissions from the manufacturer’s customers. Brigitta (Traute Hoess), Erika’s man-loathing friend, fosters her own ambitions and pretensions on the impressionable Zenker matriarch.While driving Karsten and a pair of female companions to the airport, a detour to retrieve forgotten boarding passes leads to a speed-trap confrontation over Wolfgang’s license suspension. Wolfgang’s world quickly crumbles. The dissembling ensues.Everymann, frau und kind will find something to identify with here. There are truly warm moments interspersed with light comic relief. Enjoy.

Prima! Good scipt, well-acted, good direction and a sweet love story told in a new way! Light comedy, rather provocative, though unoriginal theme which is--it's all about family in the end. Setting aside, for the moment, the genetic predisposition to dysfunction for all individuals in families, we see the tensions rise in this film's family as their individual goals, hopes and dreams collide and ultimately disintegrate. Out of the wreckage something different/new (and hopefully better) emerges; at least that is the moral of this family's story. Perhaps, a bit Pollyanna, buthopeful.

Mostly likeable comedy interspersed with a couple very unsympathetic characters. The two romantic leads do a fine job, as does the mother. The mother's friend and the father/husband are well-acted, but the ending is quite unbelievable, and the father's "redemption" seems totally out of character considering his reprehensible behavior throughout the film.

Not bad. I love happy endings. It just drags a bit. I like that the gay son proves himself with his love of family and gay self. I love the way it ends with the Germain family heading to Spain. Their Spanish is better than mine. You figure.

It is a funny movie if you give it a chance. The main characters father really can be really annoying but I found the movie overall enjoyable.

German gay cinema is certainly different. This was a bit predictable but enjoyable for a rainy afternoon inside. P.S. I love Germans!

If you just want to watch a sweet innocent gay comedy, this is it. The two main characters are two of Germany`s most wanted eyecandies (both straight in real life, unfortunately....) Enjoy!

Good comedy that loses little in translation via subtitles. Humor is universal, I guess. The two main characters are good looking and believable. Amusing.

最初、友達との旅行を自分の都合で取りやめさせる父親のあまりの横暴さにびっくり。そんな感じで人の気持ちを考えないから、家族仲も仕事もうまくいかなくなり、破産までしてしまう。でもそこから反省してなんとかもちなおす家族のお話。息子が、父のライバルと、お互いに知らずに恋に落ちるのもいいアクセントになっていた。ちょっと年の差がある気がしてしまったけど。息子が父親に反発しながらも、根は素直で優しい子でおっとり具合がかわいかった。