In The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penality Kick, based on Peter Handke’s short story of the same name, Wim Wenders’ cinema is there. And, despite the director’s lack of experience behind the camera, the film presaged what would one day become the renowned director from Düsseldorf.
I just can’t go on makes extreme realism its greatest strength, while at the same time also standing out for its marked lyricism. In Austria, a new film movement, which aims first and foremost to show us reality as it is, without any filter, has officially begun. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
Due to the extreme care with which it was realised, Couples, by Austrian painter Maria Lassnig, looks like a very mature work, where animation, painting, photography and live action cinema come together to create a short but significant film, merging into one another in perfect harmony.