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The movie “Club Zero”: blissful Anorexia, save us!

by Anna Dalton

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Jessica Hausner’s social dramedy “Club Zero” is in cinemas, nominated for the Cannes Golden Bough and missed the award because of black—black sarcasm.
The author admitted that the idea of the painting was inspired by the legend of the Pied piper of Hamelin and Russian folk tales. Obviously, first of all, there is a “Kolobok”, and there are seven “koloboks” here. The role of grandparents is played by the parents of students who invited a fashionable coach to an elite boarding school in order to improve the eating behavior of their children as part of her elective.

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To begin with, Ms. Novak (Mia Wasikowska) suggests that teenagers formulate the goals and objectives of the training. One kid wants to please parents who are hooked on a paleo diet, another chooses “healthy eating as one of the main components of a proper lifestyle,” the third wants to score points for active behavior and get a scholarship. Beautiful girls care about the environment — they hope that “conscious nutrition will help in the fight against global warming”, they dream of reducing stress … “Great! — the mentor sums up, — our classes will allow you to contribute to saving the planet, improve your physical fitness and self-control, as well as increase your scores.”