The Berlinale 2025 is currently working on its own, but before the last curtain for this year’s ice and snow, the festival, which is used by ice and snow, falls, we can dive into the eternal summer of Los Angeles. Pop star and rapper Oliver (Archie Madekwe) lives here, who has already brought it quite far. However, a step is still missing from the very big fame. In Lurker he meets his personal talented Mr. Ripley, who nestles his life and takes action on the measures to stay there in order to stay there.
Harmless fan or psycho? That is the question in the thriller Lurker
Matthew is played by the Canadian Théodore Pellerin, who in a supporting role in a supporting role in the rarely always striked and a year later In Netflix ‘horror film someone is one of the main roles in your house took over. In the course of streaming production, his figure is suspected of murder and who can blame those responsible? Depending on whom he is playing, he radiates the threat of a dachshund puppy or that of the last face that you see before your limbs are stuffed into a chopper. In Lurker he puts a spot landing somewhere in between, so you never know exactly how far it will maneuver in one direction or another.
There is a no less fitting line -up opposite him. Archie Madenkwes To date, the biggest appearance was probably the leading role in Neill Blomkamp’s racing game adaptation Gran Turismo. Thematically, however, the high-stapler story of Saltburn by Emerald Fennell, in which Madekwe as the rival of Barry Keoghan, advertises the favor of Jacob Elordi’s rich sprout. In Lurker he himself gives the object of desire.
Pop star Oliver Walks in the trendy clothes shop, in which Matthew works and suddenly one of the songs sounds that has influenced him deeply. Of course, this was initiated by improvisation talent Matthew, who pretends as if he didn’t know the musician. Oliver buys his lie from him. What could be the beginning of a wonderful friendship develops to Game for humiliation and control between the star and the new member of his entourage.
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Lurker is Alex Russell’s directorial debut, who has made a name for himself in the past as an author of the two stress series, namely Netflix ‘Beef and The Bear: King of the Kitchen at Disney+. His feature film debut takes on a more leisurely pace that lives from the observation of the rather credible microeconomics that has developed in Oliver’s house in the hills of Los Angeles.
In a parasitic relationship with the musician, everyone secures the livelihood, while it filters exactly which yes-sager is adopted in his new family or is placed on the street. Foreign shams are inevitable. Matthew is part of his own dignity regardless of his dignity, whereby he lacks the professionalism of a Tom Ripley from the novels by Patricia Highsmith.
Lurker lacks the satirical exaggeration of Saltburn as well as the seductive force of Anthony Minghella’s Ripley film or the youngest Netflix series with Andrew Scott, not to mention the finesse of a parasite. From the one of the promoted stories of this kind However, the film stands out by two aspects.
First, the setting in the music business, which the film is observed closely, is sitting down, for which time and interest were missing in the idol. On the other hand, the two excellent main actors who complement themselves wonderfully. When Théodore Peller Matthew observes how someone contested his place in the Entourage, his anxious-planned look burns almost into the screen. You can see the cogs in the gear hastily turn and the fear rises how far he will go this time. Archie Madekwe, on the other hand, expresses the desolate loneliness of the star existence. Neither of the two fates really want to touch, but sometimes a bad dream can warm under the sun before walking out into the cold.
Lurker was shown at the Berlinale Special section in the Berlinale 2025. The film does not yet have a German theatrical release.