Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha, The

In 1903, Frank Wedekind left his symbolic novel "Mine-Haha oder Über die körperliche Erziehung der jungen Mädchen" in a fragment. That's also why it's very hard to grapple with its interpretation. However, this adaptation goes to the extreme and treats Wedekind like Goethe's "Heidenröslein." The world of boarding school for future prima ballerinas has its own rules, and young Hidalla is going through a similar process of growing up as young Törless. Life is cruel. (21.12.2013)