Films by Marieke Schroeder

Germany 2014, 89 min
by Marieke Schroeder

Country music does not enjoy a good reputation - at least not in Europe. Country is barely within the boundaries of good taste. Country ‒ that’s botoxed women and flabby men with guitars ‒ mediocre pop-music with bad lyrics that consult varying quantities of mother, homemade pie, cold beer, and USA - and throw them together in good measure to define the concept of ‘home’. But Country - that’s also Johnny Cash, Townes van Zandt and Steve Earle. It stands for an America that many only