In modern societies, children's birthdays are inherently a conflict-prone event.

After all, if possible, other children should also take part, so that aspects of competition and comparison come into play immediately.

And then there's the patchwork aspect: Many parents are no longer couples, for example when their child celebrates their first double-digit birthday.

The party turns into a battle when the new stepmom doesn't shy away from the bazooka and actually makes plans to give a dog as a gift!

A young woman named Eva is confronted with this scenario in the comedy "Hunting Season".

She lost her ex-husband to an Instagram star named Bella, and the daughter is also living in the new branch of the family.

One could speak of such a thing if one wants to see the matter constructively, but Eva (Rosalie Thomass, known for example from the "Kangaroo" films) is by no means inclined to do so.

She reacts rather destructively to her new role and even three years after the breakup she still hasn't really come to terms with it, let alone that she herself has found a new partner for a potential new branch of the family.

The preparations for the unavoidable participation in little Olivia's birthday party are like an arms race.

First they try plastic guns in a superstore, then the daughter sends an invitation, making aggressive noises with every touch - especially when you want to silence the thing, which Eva has every reason to do when she is one of Olivia's teachers sitting across from her, next to her ex-husband and the ever-perfect Bella.

Comedies have always worked with this kind of perfidy of the object, and this scene is really funny too, especially given the way Rosalie Thomass plays it.

The director Aron Lehmann became known in 2018 with the romantic comedy "The most beautiful girl in the world".

Now he has taken a hit from Denmark as a template: "Jagdsaison" (2019) was also called that in the neighboring country.

At the beginning the signs point to catfighting, but that would be a variant that has long been recognized as outdated.

Rather, it is about discovering female solidarity in an environment in which it is not so easy to find men who are capable of satisfaction anyway.

"Sisters before misters" is a relevant slogan.

In "Jagdsaison" there is a Marlene in addition to Eva and Bella, who contributes to the completion of the women's team and who also brings the nature of the huntsman into play.

At a conference in Finland she met a man who could endanger their relationship.

It goes conceptually and aesthetically very directly to the point

She wants to "fuck away" her need for a fling - even in "Jagdsaison" circumstances are occasionally paraphrased, but more often it gets very straight to the point in terms of concept, content and aesthetics.

For example, when Eva wanted to have her pubic hair styled (among other things, the model “Hitlerbärtchen” was on offer) and the idea was brought up that there were growth rings in the genital area.

In order to gain clarity on this, she needs her phone, which, if you're not careful, can also send pictures right away.

Since the 1990s, a type of comedy has developed in America that skilfully plays with disgust and embarrassment (the English word “big” for indecency of the coarser kind set the tone).

With “Hunting Season”, this phenomenon, which initially focused primarily on eternal adolescence, has arrived in the middle of life stories and in the middle of society.

It has by no means remained a young phenomenon and has even been freed from the stigma of eternal regression: the sisters at Aron Lehmann are progressively "big", basically it is also gradually becoming clearer that Bella is the one who has to be freed from her ivory tower.

With the exception of one clown, the men are all completely uninteresting in their cast immaculateness.

Or explicitly only relevant as a carrier of a body part that is represented by eggplants in text messages.

Incidentally, “Jagdsaison” has its best punchline in the credits, where the hit “I find you shitty” by Tic Tac Toe from 1996 shows that women like Eva do not have to go through life without tradition.

You don't need "American Pies" to start new branches of the family without iffy vegetables.

Germany was already "sassy" when "The Moved Man" had to serve as a reason for hilarity in the cinema.