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Courtesy of Zeitgeist Filmproduktion FFM Three teenagers, unclothed, stand close to one another in a forest, gently caressing the wounds they have inflicted on one another. This is the climactic moment in “Oasis,” a film that at times feels like a Grimms Brothers fairytale, and, at others, an all-too-real vision of modern-day youth in crisis.
If you were told that the German director, Jannis Lenz, was tutored by Jessica Hausner and was an assistant to Michael Haneke, then you’d get a sense of the influences at play in the film — his debut feature — which has its world premiere on Sunday in the Horizons section of Venice Film Festival.
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