DIE SUPPE
A (seemingly) simple and straightforward story, a single shot, a single location and only two characters. Die Suppe by Hubert Sielecki doesn’t need many elements to reach the audience with all its visual and communicative power.
Category: 1983
FEAR BLOWS WITH THE WIND
In Fear blows with the Wind, anguish is the common thread linking all the protagonists. Regardless of their age and social status. Manfred Kaufmann, for his part, has opted for an extremely realistic and essential directorial approach. Vienna is shown to us in a way that is quite different from the classic postcard images that are usually spread all over the world. As part of the retrospective Keine Angst by the Filmarchiv Austria.
THE INHERITORS
In The Inheritors a stark and often ruthless realism blends well, from time to time, with disturbing eroticism, making this important work by Walter Bannert also, unfortunately, sadly topical. At the Viennale 2023, as part of the Filmarchiv Austria’s retrospective Keine Angst.
FEAR
In Fear, a realistic and highly innovative directorial approach in which there is very little and essential dialogue ties in well with splatter scenes that are so reminiscent of 1980s Italian horror cinema, but which nonetheless find their own fulfillment here, revealing a strong, well-marked personality. At the Viennale 2023, as part of the Filmarchiv Austria’s retrospective Keine Angst.
CANALE GRANDE
Lights, colours, extravagant costumes and highly paradoxical situations become the trademark of this precious and unique Canale Grande. Friederike Pezold is not afraid to dare, to have her say, to ‘shout’ her anger – always with a welcome touch of irony and humour – against today’s society, against a latent chauvinism and against what the world of telecommunications has become. At the Diagonale 2021.
EISZEIT
The world portrayed in Eiszeit immediately presents itself as a reality apart, as a world populated only by young people who, in their own way, attempt to rebel against the society in which they live, categorically refusing to conform to it.
THE PACIFIC OCEAN
With a sophisticated black and white that recalls the cinematography of Katzelmacher (Fassbinder’s first film, 1969), The Pacific Ocean – the first feature by Xaver Schwarzenberger, Fassbinder’s long-time assistant – is a work that, in its own way, has become a milestone in Austrian and German cinema of the 1980s.