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| The Guardian - Culture: Film | | | | Reality Must Be Addressed review – telling the unvarnished truth about first love | | by Cath Clarke Jan 2, 2023 | | German director Johanna Seggelke chronicles her relationship with free-spirit Sky as they roam South Africa together before fetching up in Berlin It would be easy to sneer at the almost agonising intimacy of this documentary from young German film-maker Johanna Seggelke, which is her graduation film from the University of Television and Film in Munich and tells the story of her intense relationship with Sky, whom she meets backpacking in South Africa. Running at just 53 minutes, it’s a slight and narrowly focused film; I suspect some will find it too self-absorbed. But there is something so disarmingly honest in how Seggelke opens up her feelings and vulnerabilities. The year is 2016; Seggelke is 19. Feeling lost, she’s travelling around South Africa when she spots Sky in a bar. “I thought you were the coolest girl I’d ever seen,” she explains on the voiceover, and her film is a love letter to Sky, who grew up between South Africa and the US, and dropped out to smoke weed and go backpacking. Seggelke is intoxicated by Sky’s rootlessness: the way she lives in a squall of chaos, constantly losing important things like her driving licence, and not caring that she doesn’t have a penny in her pocket. For her part, Sky says that she wants to be more solid and grounded like Seggelke: “It’s that German mentality.” Continue reading... | | | | | |
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