The Man Cave
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / space, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Quotas for women, parking spaces for women, online shopping, small talk and gossip. Software developer Erol, porta-potty rep Lars, and commercial pilot Helmut are licking the wounds of their masculinity – a female-free zone is what’s needed! In the boiler room of their recently built housing complex, the three stressed husbands create a secret refuge where they can watch football, eat fast-food, drink beer and curse the opposite sex undisturbed. When Aykut, the complex’s facility manager, discovers their last bastion of masculinity, he threatens to close it down. One thing is for sure, the men are not going to give up their little slice of paradise without a fight. Based on the stage play bearing the same name, director Franziska Meyer Price allows men to return to rebellious ladhood.
Our read · The Man Cave (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · space · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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