LOLLIPOP MONSTER

  • Ziska Riemann

“We feel everything, you can't fool us, we are instinct, desire and instinct ...”, sings the favorite band of the two girls Ari and Oona, who dream of breaking free. But at home, they don't feel, they keep quiet. Ari's mother hasn't noticed that her children have grown up, and her brother bullies the family in the colourful, superficial designer world. The lolita-like Ari makes up for her lack of affection by having sex with adult men and vying for the attention of the mysterious, black-clad Oona. Overwhelmed by a heavy blow of fate, Oona is not yet ready for friendship with Ari ...

In her garish comic pop drama, Ziska Riemann consistently adopts the perspective of the two teenagers and delves into their adolescent emotional world in a wild mixture of live action, animated charcoal drawings, music video, dance performances and Super 8 sequences. Born in 1973, Ziska Riemann is a comic artist who worked with Gerhard Seyfried from 1991 and published her first own comic (“Rascal & Lucille”) in 1997. She writes short stories - her screenplay Die Hunde sind schuld was filmed for television in 2000. In 2004, she founded a record label, which also released her own solo album. After several short films, Riemann made her first feature film with Lollipop Monster.

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