Riddle Of Fire (3 Stars)

This is the eighth film in the Stuttgart Nights Festival.

Jodie, Hazel and Alice are three young friends who live in Ribbon, Oklahoma. They ride around on motorbikes that look too old for their age, armed with paint guns. The girl sitting on the ground is Petal, but they don't meet her until later in the film.

The film is described as a fairy tale, but it reminds me more of the computer adventure games in which a series of tasks have to be performed in order to reach a goal. It's easy to explain. The children want to play a video game, but only their mother knows the password. She promises to tell them the password if they fetch her a blueberry pie. The cook at the only bakery in town is sick, but she says she'll give the children her recipe if they fetch her ice to cool her down. When they get her the ice (by stealing it) she gives them the recipe, but they can't get a speckled egg because a man buys the last box before their eyes. So they have to follow him to steal the eggs.

And it continues from there. It's a whole chain of tasks that have to be performed in order to play their video game.

This is probably suitable as a children's film, and it's pleasant to watch, but it's not a film I'm likely to watch more than once.