Schultze Gets The blues

I was reading about this movie in the paper yesterday and got so hooked on the description that I'm actually heading to the theater to catch it in a few days.

http://www.schultzegetstheblues.com/

Anyone else seen it yet?

Give me your thoughts!

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Oh, right. It’s playing at the KIC, so if you're interested, you can probably track down the showtimes easily enough. For all you "subtle souls" out there looking for something deep, I can personally guarantee this is going to be a POWERFUL film.😉

The absolute highlight of yesterday's festival lineup had to be a little indie debut called »Schultze Gets the Blues« by Michael Schorr. It’s set in a small mining town up in northern Germany where everyone is getting hit hard by the recession. Once the heavy-set guy from the title finally retires, he tries to fight off the loneliness with his harmonica—only instead of traditional tunes, he starts playing Cajun melodies. It's enough to cause quite a stir in a town like that. But Schultze is a dreamer, and he’s fixated on making his big trip down to Louisiana. Honestly, I think Jim Jarmusch would really dig this one.

If you get a chance, you should really check out the documentary Genghis blues. It’s a pretty wild story—it follows this blind blues musician from San Francisco who happens to catch the most bizarre, beautiful music he's ever heard on the airwaves of Voice of America one night: Tuvan throat singing. He spends the next couple of years obsessively practicing the technique, and then, through a series of crazy coincidences, he actually lands an opportunity to compete in a national throat singing competition right there in Tuva.
The two filmmakers who followed his journey to capture it all for the screen are actually our own countrymen—Adrian and Roko Belić.

Thanks for the tip. I feel like I’ve heard that name somewhere before, though I honestly had no clue what it was actually about.

And while we're on the subject of Tuva, I'm not sure if you caught wind of this, but tonight—well, technically it's already today since we blew past midnight—Gendos is performing at 9:00 PM at the local AMC theater. He's this Tuvan shaman and (deep-)throat singer 😁

http://www.nebofestzagreb.com/

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Wait, for real?
The world really has become such a tiny place, hasn't it? 😁

It’s a beautiful little story about ordinary people. Schultze is a miner who retires alongside two close friends. Suddenly finding himself with all this "extra time," he realizes that even in the twilight of his life, he can still do something extraordinary—something that breaks away from the predictable routine he’s lived in his tight-knit community. His life used to be nothing more than work, grabbing beers at the local pub, tending the garden, and playing the accordion in honor of his father. The whole narrative is subtle, filled with side characters who quietly nudge him toward the "last adventure of his life": the search for the Cajuns and their unique musical soul.

He gets indirect encouragement from an older woman, a bit of a heavy drinker who has seen the world, and a young girl dreaming of dancing flamenco in Spain.

In the end, Schultze finds exactly what he was looking for, reminding us all that you're never too old to chase a dream.

It’s a melancholy, subtle film with hints of black humor that actually moved me to tears by the end.

Definitely worth a watch! 🙂