T. NICHT FÜTTERN
In T. nicht füttern, the images immediately make us think of Japanese figurative art and, specifically, of the animations of master Isao Takahata, without, however, allowing this short film by Tone Fink to lose personality.
Category: 2016
THE DREAMED ONES
Ruth Beckermann has once again succeeded in creating a hybrid work that is intelligent and never banal or rhetorical. A work, The dreamed Ones, alive and pulsating on the movie screen, in which the words of two great poets (Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan) are (almost) the absolute protagonists.
STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe by Maria Schrader and starring a great Josef Hader is a biopic that consciously rejects any pre-established pattern and that in its apparent simplicity soon reveals itself to be far more complex and layered than it might initially seem.
TONI ERDMANN
Toni Erdmann is the film one does not expect. Is it, perhaps, a comedy? A drama? The story of a tender but complex father-daughter relationship? A deep social investigation in which we are shown how capitalism seems to have definitively taken over our lives? Probably, each of these elements.
HOTEL ROCK’N’ROLL
In Hotel Rock’n’Roll one never knows what to expect, and alongside amusing misunderstandings, clumsy policemen, “impossible loves” and speed cameras ready to treacherously take photographs, there is always time for an evening with old and new friends, singing and drinking merrily.
VIENNA TABLE TRIP
Vienna Table Trip looks almost like a timeless fairy tale, like a little reality where past and present meet to create something unique. Meanwhile, delicate minimalist music accompanies us on the “journey”. A great master of animation film, Virgil Widrich has once again made a little gem of Austrian avant-garde cinema.
THREE FARMERS AND A SON
In Three Farmers and a Son, three generations meet, confront one another, collaborate and create, together, a beautiful harmony. Sigmund Steiner, for his part, has sensitively and intelligently captured every single aspect of farmers’ lives and their special bond with the land, leading to a much broader and more complex discourse.
PARADISE! PARADISE!
In Paradise! Paradise! two cultures are compared through their colours, their sounds, their city streets. Different languages immediately become a universal language, immediately become cinema. At the Diagonale’22.
FLY AWAY HOME
In her important Fly away Home Mirjam Unger has made everything develop on two distinct levels: on the one hand there is war, poverty, the destroyed city and the army. On the other is Christl with her curiosity about the world and her joie de vivre.
ATTACK OF THE LEDERHOSEN ZOMBIES
Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies gets us into the heart of the matter almost immediately, creating successful moments of suspense, alternating with deliberately demential scenes. A humour, this one, that is good for the spirit, never excessive or unnecessary and that also reveals a great love for the seventh art.