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Young Patricia wanders through a Viennese night full of lust for love, visions of drugs and violence, gleaming frenzy and dark alleys.
The Gold of Love
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25 Feb 1983
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Eckhart Schmidt's follow-up to The Fan finds him plunging a music fan into quite the soul-stirring odyssey, as one-crazy-night turns into a bad-trip after she fails to get into a concert for her favourite band DAF.
The utter rejection as she explains she has no money leaves her crying tears of blood. The red stuff doesn't stop there either, as she soon witnesses a grisly murder at the hands of a mysterious woman.
Now she's on the run from this woman and her gang, sending her from one venue to the next, and one eccentric character to another, sliding through the visceral slew of weird sex, awkward nudity, hard drugs, disturbing violence, and banging tunes.As the middle film in…
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Deutschelectropostpunk dream logic cool. A darkly lit stalk through an alternate dimension Vienna. A mirage of a movie, its murky light casting a singular glimpse into West Germany’s youth affected 80's Cold War consciousness. So of its time, place, and cultural moment that it seems almost solely responsible for the moment itself. (Though, word is, Eckhart Schmidt’s previous film, 1982’s ‘Der Fan’, is even more tapped in. I’ve yet to see it.) I watched this with my little sis Maddy, not in proximal space, but in virtual time/space. She picked it. You should go read her review too.
And Maddy, I’m talking directly to you now. Lordy lord, do you have my fucking number. You understand completely that what I…
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🎶 Hallo liebe Kinder, hier kommt der Weihnachtsmann.
1st rewatch --- It's even more rewarding on the second watch. This would be a great movie for a group to watch and discuss afterward. There are so many images in the film that could be interpreted in various ways. Maybe it's all nonsense. Who knows. The early 80s underground / new wave scene of Vienna is captured as well. A great time capsule.
>>> My old review of the film <<<
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I superstitiously believe that the first movie you watch in a calendar year will reflect the kind of movie year you're going to have. For instance, last January 1st I was with family and ended up seeing the remake of the Jungle Book for the second time. I had my worst movie year to date. Choose wisely, my friends!
Fresh off of a 35mm revisit of Der Fan, and slightly bummed that I didn't see Christiane F, this seemed like the only logical way to start off the year. Similarly, Eckhart Smith showcases a teenage girl obsessed with a pop band. Again, the soundtrack is outstanding. There's on scene in particular at a Discotheque where a bunch of kids are…
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Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night, sweating, your heart beating fast, saying to yourself out loud: "Thank God, it was just a bad dream?"
I had been meaning to search out Eckhart Schmidts other movies after seeing der Fan (Trance) a couple of years ago and loving it. It's just that his movies are so damn hard to find.
Both der Fan and das Gold der Liebe are about teenage obsession. Where Simone just wanted to meet her idol R, Patricia wants to meet Gabi and Robert from D.A.F. (think early electro-pop/ the darker side of the Neue Deutsche Welle.)
That's where the similarities between both movies end though.
Where der Fan was a slow…
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2nd Eckhart Schmidt (after Der Fan)
Had this on the watchlist ever since Maddy and Josh reviewed it together last year and loved it, and certainly I can see why they loved it. This is strongly oneiric in its tale of a young woman wandering through the murky Vienna night in search of a pop band who's been calling her through the moon. There's shades of Alice in Wonderland in its loose, episodic structure and the white jumper and pants Patricia wears, with a red-mouthed queen (well, Princess) stalking her every move. The moon is a rabbit hole, a tunnel into the illogical neon and synth-filled nightmare of the first water. The soundtrack is great if you love D.A.F., Stosstrupp…
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Eckhart Schmidt immediately pulls us into Patricia's dream by way of nightmare and noise and electronic music and blood. One singular night follows our sweet madchen lead, driven by her waking dreams and the bright spotlight moon, as she wanders through 80s Germany towards an underground punk show.
Darkness, tears of blood, murder, nudity – she’s rejected from the concert and then hunted after bearing witness to something she shouldn’t have in the dark night. It’s bleak and confusing, with driving, drill-like music and symbolic shot after shot after thick shot. It’s eerie and weird, filled with nightmare logic, with some deliciously disturbing visuals that made me want to pull a notebook out and start a list of what they…
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Angel Dust and the Finale in Blood: October Watchlist.
Oh, gorgeous night terrors of nightmare-logic! Inside the teenage fan mind-set of wanting. The knife comes for us in sleep states to think about, screaming into the mosh and seething in this velvety underbelly.
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Eckhart Schmidt decided to follow his controversial hit 'Der Fan' with the even more challenging and less accessible 'Das Gold der Liebe' (at times even called 'Der Fan 2' which you gotta admit makes sense).
This is a pretty surreal nightmare and also a night movie taking place in one night, which is always great. It's full of dark images and symbolism (that probably went over my head). The German new wave & post punk soundtrack has some songs equally memorable as the Rheingold tracks in 'Der Fan' and especially the 'Weihnachtsmann' song will be a new favorite. The film is starring Alexandra and Allegra Curtis - the daughters of Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufmann. While Allegra went on to be… -
Look, who hasn't been chased all over Berlin by heroin-dealing no wavers while trying to get into a DAF show?
Much more fragmented and experimental than Der Fan, but also not quite as interesting. That may very well be due to the lousy quality of the only circulating video rip, though. Hope it gets a proper restoration at some point.
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Eckhart Schmidt, the director of Der Fan, drops another NDW obsessive teen psychodrama ripped from the streets of Berlin. Das Gold der Liebe spins a little more abstract with sequences distilling the nightmare dread of being chased alone at night by heroin goths in a cold and crumbling city. The propulsive DAF soundtrack, time capsule Deutsch locations, siq new wave lqqks, inventive camerawork, and an unforgettable club kid dance sequence make Das Gold der Liebe worth seeking out!
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Das Gold der Liebe is much more experimental than Schmidt's other 80s movies. It plays out like a dream accompanied by the darker side of german new wave music from that era.
The movie leaves plenty of room for interpretation:
- Is it just a dream?
- Is it about a drug experience?
- Is it about birth/death? Yeah, that thing came to my mind because there are some scenes that are hinting at that. Not to mention the sound of a baby crying at least to points in the film. Bright lights could also be a symbol of rebirth or smth. Gaspar Noe loves using these.
- It could also have something to do with Roman mythology given Schmidt's background and interests.
Overall great film. I'll definetly watch this again.
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