By: Denna Beena
Contributing Writer 
I Feel Like Disco
type: Narrative Feature/ International Feature
showing:
Wed, April 9th 9:00PM - 10:35PM Regal Winter Park Village A
Sat, April 12th 6:45PM - 8:20PM Enzian
keywords:
coming of age, coming out, young love, family
my notes: This has been my favorite of what I have seen at the previews. I thought this movie was really sweet and well cast.
I FEEL LIKE DISCO tells the bittersweet story of a family learning to accept each other. Slightly overweight, teenaged Florian (newcomer Frithjof Gawenda) has trouble fitting in with people his own age and shows little interest in sports or girls. When he’s alone, he likes to dance to his favorite German disco star. His father Hanno (Heiko Pinkowski) trains divers at the local pool and knows that his relationship with Florian is stressed nearly to the breaking point. Florian’s mother Monika (a dazzling Christina Grosse) was always there to mind the gulf between them, but when she suffers a stroke and slips into a coma, father and son are forced to deal with each other and cope with this new reality. Axel Ranish's gay coming-of-age tale is told with equal parts humor, absurdity, honesty, and pain, with a sensitive touch that never loses sight of the film’s refreshingly awkward sweetness.
