Essen, schlafen, keine Frauen
Germany,
2002, 76 min
Shown in 2003
CREDITS
- dir
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Heiner Stadler
- prod
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Heiner Stadler
- scr
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Heiner Stadler
- cam
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Yusef Hu, Heiner Stadler
- editor
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Micki Joanni
- mus
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Roman Bunka
- source
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Heiner Stadler Filmproduktion, Agnesstrasse 66, Munich 80797, Germany. FAX: 49-89-12392262.
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COMMENTS
Heiner Stadler in person.
OTHER
In Heiner Stadler’s documentary, Eat, Sleep, No Women, the German journalist-turned-filmmaker cleverly edits footage previously gathered during a ten-year period of travels into an account of how the effects of war in one region of the world reverberate in every other region—indeed, in every person. The war in this case is the war that the United States launched in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. In an entertaining and philosophical manner, Stadler guides us on a journey to France, New York, Brazil, Egypt, China, Hong Kong, South Africa and throughout the Middle East, where we glimpse individual lives and the war’s impact on them. In one vignette in the Middle East, a photojournalist admits his fear and acknowledges that he believes his life is more valuable than the pictures he is supposed to be taking. Without being moralistic or didactic, the director suggests that war is inconsistent, ridiculous and wasteful. One war correspondent declares that he has experienced “the worst of humanity at the worst of times.” At this moment in history, this film offers an important opportunity for Americans to reflect on how we are regarded from a global perspective. Intermittent quotes from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War add both a counterpoint to Stadler’s voiceover and an ever troubling timeliness.
—Cathleen Rountree
FACTOID #304
After its U.S. premiere at the 1969 Festival, the print of Z by Costa-Gavras was stolen from the locked projection room of the Masonic Auditorium.
