SpIFF: My Words, My Lies, My Loves
David is just a lowly waiter who’s kinda dorky. Well “kinda” dorky is subjective. As this is a German film, David’s Deutschland dorkiness will hit your American sensibilities in such a way that makes him appear unfathomably awkward. Even his mouth is strange. Germans.
Just as he’s becoming unbearably pathetic, David runs across an unpublished novel manuscript. Well this is just super-fantastisch, as he’s trying to seduce a hot, pretentious literature major. After slapping his name on the manuscript, he gives it to her to read. Naturally, she falls in love with it and him. She secretly sends the novel off to a publisher, Suddenly David becomes Germany’s most famous author. There’s just one tiny complication: The man who wrote the novel comes forward. (Germany | 104 mins) Read our story about this
Thursday, February 03, 2011 | 7 pm | $10; $5


