Rated Worthwhile
Film Evaluation Authority's (FBW) assessment of the film
»Intimate portrait of a fascinating artist who gained fame as the social media phenomenon "Uffie" and is becoming increasingly lost in the world of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
In our digitalised, networked, fast-moving world, a career can start overnight. Like "Uffie." In 2005 the young woman, whose real name is Anna Hartley, puts a demo tape online on MySpace with a befriended electro DJ. And overnight Uffie becomes a star. From then on it goes steeply uphill. Several tours and albums later then the collapse. Too many drugs. Too much alcohol. Too much partying. Too much of life. Uffie can't take it no more. And decides to go to therapy to break away from Uffie as Anna Hartley. But how can you break away from something that has ultimate control over your whole life? The filmmakers Robert Cibis and Lilian Franck have accompanied the performance artist Uffie for over a decade, depicting all the highs and lows of her creative work, which is directly linked to her private life. Various concert tours or phases of Uffie's life form the dramaturgical framework. Again and again Cibis and Franck take steps back and forth, the montage is wild and the perfect cinematic reflection of Uffie's inner conflict, which is revealed to the film team with astonishing openness. And thus also reveals her vulnerable side, including a manic-depressive and bipolar clinical picture, which Uffie finds difficult to face. Right from the start, electronic music accompanies the film with a whipping rhythm and, together with a fantastic camera that gets very close to Uffie, creates an almost physical cinema feeling. As a viewer you are part of Uffie's world and can empathically accompany her on her way. Uffie herself, with her exuberant, energetic attitude to life and her fragile, almost childlike vulnerability, is a charismatic, dazzling character who, at the end of the film, you wish to follow the right path in life for her. Not as Uffie. But above all as Anna Hartley. "Fuck Fame" is the vividly dynamic and yet very sensitive portrait of a fascinating personality.«
Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW)