Released in Swiss cinemas back in November,
Recycling Lily looks to be the sort of film that very rarely travels internationally but I really wish would: A quirky, crowd pleasing romantic comedy executed with bags of style. In many ways what I see here from Pierre Monnard's debut feature reminds me a great deal of Swedish director Patrik Eklund (
Flimmer) and it will likely run into the same sort of issues finding an international audience: It's too mainstream for the festival crowd and yet too odd to become a major crossover hit. Here's how Monnard describes the story:
This offbeat comedy tells the story of a perfection-obsessed Bin
Inspector, Hansjörg Sthäli, who falls for the wrong girl, Lily Frei, a
charming waitress at his local diner and a compulsive hoarder at home...
Take a look at the English subtitled trailer below.