Every summer the Yebisu Garden Cinema organises Star Light Cinema, showing free open-air movies at weekends. This year they are also celebrating their tenth anniversary and the line-up of Star Light Cinema is a selection of fifteen out of the about 120 movies they have screened over the last decade. Unlike in previous years they started handing out (free) reserved seat tickets in advance to distribute the limited seating. It is not clear if you are allowed to sit on the floor without tickets, but they did not stop us from doing so. More troublesome was the poor quality of the sound, which made it very difficult to understand the dialogue (the volume of the dialogue was too low and completely drowned by the background music), but that could have been a problem with this particular movie and the fact that everyone (except us) was probably just reading the subtitles anyway.

The five weekends are grouped thematically, and this weekend is Children's Voice, with two Swedish movies and a 2003 version of the German classic Das fliegende Klassenzimmer. The movie was surprisingly good, the story was updated to modern times in an intelligent way by including the German Post-War Separation and Reunification as background motives (although I was less happy with the rap music parts), and even the usually annoying Piet Klocke is funny in this one.

6 points