FINALE
In Sabine Marte’s short film Finale, research, irony and a singular, careful study of bodies and interpersonal relationships are presented to us in a completely unique and innovative way.
Category: 2007
42PLUS
With 42plus Sabine Derflinger has given us a mature feature film that is never banal or rhetorical. An in-depth analysis of human relationships that soon turns out to be much more complex than it initially seemed.
FUNNY GAMES U.S.
In Funny Games U.S., Michael Haneke showed us above all how certain dynamics, even after several years, have never changed. Upper-class society, but also gratuitous violence and, above all, the power of staging are faithfully re-proposed from what had already been staged, ten years earlier, in Funny Games.
PRATER
Ulrike Ottinger’s Prater is a rollercoaster ride, a ride on its many carousels, a true visual experience. Past and present meet, ‘collide’ and merge into one.
BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
It immediately presents itself as a good blend of arts, Being and Nothingness. Music and film thus give rise to a completely innovative and unique product. And to this end, director Bady Minck has opted for a quite minimalist approach.
THE COUNTERFEITERS
In Stefan Ruzowitzky’s The Counterfeiters, another chapter of the Second World War is shown with a fine work of subtraction.