ROBBER GIRLS [RÄUBERINNEN]
by Carla Lia Monti Switzerland 2009 35 mm 80 min. Germ. OV Engl. ST
RÄUBERINNEN [ROBBER GIRLS] is an absurd journey through the goings-on of a modern-day forest. It follows two young rifle-wielding girls, Emily and maid-turned-fugitive Trizi, as they escape from the threats of a hideous sexually deviant bishop. In a desperate attempt to save themselves from his grasp, they survive by becoming merciless man-hating highway robbers.
As their own sense of sexuality and moral ethics evolve in this strange world, and as they become desperate to survive, they’re taken in by Madame Fleurie. She runs the forest’s brothel, a rambunctuous world of dubious fetishistic behaviour. Sadly, this culminates in a grand-shoot out involving her host of big-bosomed employees, the semi-naked bishop and his guards who have discovered their whereabouts. Luckily, the girls and all the hookers manage to escape alive.
