52 Films by Women Vol 3. 21. LOMO – THE LANGUAGE OF MANY OTHERS (Director: Julia Langhof)
The young German writer-director Julia Langhof wanted to make a film about a passive central character. She partially succeeds in her feature debut, LOMO – The Language of Many Others , about a seventeen-year-old student who conducts his life virtually, but whose online activity has potentially devastating consequences for his famil y. Karl (Jonas Dassler) attends high school with no idea what he wants to do next. He devotes his life to his blog, ‘LOMO – The Language of Many Others’, which has followers worldwide. His parents disapprove, especially when it is their lives that he is blogging about. He becomes the focus of attention of politician’s daughter, Doro (Lucie Hollman), who has a testing relationship with her mother – Doro is a boundary pusher. When she breaks off their relationship, Karl puts a sex tape of the two of them online. Then all hell breaks loose. Karl’s father (Peter Jordan) is an architect whose firm depends on the patronage of the politician; she can make sure t...