ZAZY

Germany, 2016, 98 minutes, Colour.
Ruby O. Fee, Paul Boche, Philippe Brenninkmeyer, Olivia Burkhart.
Directed by M. X. Oberg.

Zazy is a German film about ambition and manipulation.

The film opens with a young couple, sexually involved, she working in dressmaking, he interested in UFOs.

While on holiday, they come across information about a prominent television personality accompanying a friend on holidays – and he falls to his death. This is covered up and the woman does not tell her husband, also a television personality.

The woman encounters Zazy as she has fittings for dresses and Zazy helps her. She and her boyfriend then make plans to have a hold over the woman so that Zazy can audition for television. She makes plausible stories about her living conditions and actually moves in with the couple, enjoying their luxury life.

The husband helps with auditions – although she does not make the final cut.

Zazy then begins to be more me manipulative, arranges clashes with her boyfriend, is asked to move out of the house but puts pressure on the wife.

She is able to move into a luxury apartment, financed by the wife, and pressurising the husband, is actually successful in gaining a position at the television station.

The boyfriend becomes more and more possessive and, when he is on a rooftop with his UFO type drone, she pushes him to his death.

As with this kind of film, the film focuses at the finale on a close-up of Zazy's face, having achieved her ambitions. And she is young enough to lead a further ruthless life.