- Stratosphere Girl
Infobox Film
name = Stratosphere Girl
caption = "Stratosphere Girl" film poster
director =Matthias X. Oberg
writer =Matthias X. Oberg
starring =Chloé Winkel ,Jon Yang
producer =Karl Baumgartner
distributor =TLA Releasing
budget =
released =9 September 2004 (Germany)
runtime = 90 min
language = English, Dutch, Japanese
imdb_id = 0306097
"Stratosphere Girl" (also known as "The Stratosphere Girl" in the
USA ) is a 2004film written and directed byMatthias X. Oberg .The film is about a Belgian teenager who travels to
Japan to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen.Plot
Belgian teenager, Angela (Chloé Winkel), who is skilled at drawing, meets, and subsequently falls in love, with an attractive Japanese DJ. Encouraged by him, she goes to
Japan to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen, who like to meet with young blonde women. From the start, the film is surreal with unique characters, clear and sharp cinematography, and slow panning camera work.Manga drawings are also used to enhance the plot and ambiance.Angela seeks work at the aforementioned club and, after having been begrudgingly let in, she is met with derision by the other girls working there. However, despite having spurned some of the other girls, she soon proves to be a favourite among the patrons by pretending to be a
Lolita -style 15-year-old to please the businessmen.The plot has a sinister undertone of the possibility of murder of a girl, Larissa, whom Angela has replaced. As the film goes on, we learn Larissa was possibly murdered, not by Japanese men in search of sick sexual fantasy fulfillment, but at the envious and jealous hands of her workmates. In the last scenes we learn Larissa lives and, furthermore, this is when Angela is heralded with the contract to be a Manga artist.
External links
* [http://www.stratospheregirl.com/ Official site]
*imdb title|id=0306097|title=Stratosphere Girl
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