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Everything Will Be Fine |
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(1997,
Germany)
Director:
Maccarone, Angelina
Starring: Kati Stademann
; Chantal De Freitas
; Chantel Sanoussi-Bliss
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This slightly over-done farce based in middle-class Hamburg charms even
when
its analysis of racism in Germany is skin deep. Everything Will Be Fine
centres on a love triangle between three women, two Afro-German (Nabou
the
lesbian protagonist and Kim the initially straight career woman) and a
blue-haired, white club-hopper (Katja). Nabou has just been thrown out by
Katja who lives in the apartment under Kim. Kim needs a housekeeper and
her
best friend is threatening to go back to Ghana with his young son.
Katja-obsessed Nabou gets the job cleaning house for Kim, abuses home and
clothes, and then falls in love with her employer. Kim, who has been
sleeping
with her boss who is a partner in an advertizing agency, is under
pressure to
marry him and passes Nabou off as her psychotically anti-racist sister --
while beginning to sleep with her. Nabou, now a tad withdrawn from Katja,
fucks with her one more time only to have Katja desperate to have her
back.
The rest, they say, is history. The iconic line in Everything Will Be
Fine
is Kim's admitting to her friend that sex with Nabou was "nice" but that
she
didn't want to be just another black dyke in Germany. Did I miss
something here?
--Brent Ingram (border / lines)
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