LIVING TOGETHER
Conceived as a minimalist vademecum, Living together, the newest documentary by director Thomas Fürhapter, shows, through a clever use of static camera, a series of extremely intense images.
Category: 2022
THE FOX
The Fox might at first seem to be one of the many (too many?) films that depict a special friendship between humans and animals. And when approaching such stories, the risk of creating something overly rhetorical is higher than ever. Adrian Goiginger, fortunately, has managed to avoid such mistakes, focusing mainly on the childhood traumas of the young protagonist. At the Diagonale’23.
ZOO LOCK DOWN
Andreas Horvath has shown us something very specific with simple but essential shots. And so, this interesting Zoo Lock Down immediately proves to be an extremely topical and necessary documentary. A simple and at the same time refined work that makes a studied minimalism its workhorse. At the Diagonale’23.
FIRST SNOW OF SUMMER
First Snow of Summer, while suffering from excessive rhetoric and scarce originality and relying excessively on emotionality, undoubtedly can be easily enjoyed and, impeccable in its aesthetics, attempts in its own way to make its mark on the national film scene. At the Diagonale’23.
THE WAY YOU SHINE
Evelyne Faye’s camera follows its protagonists in their daily activities, letting them, from time to time, confide in it, recounting their normal everyday life, their dreams, their needs, their hopes. A quiet and relaxed atmosphere, with a predominantly contemplative mood, together with pastel-coloured cinematography, is what most characterises this precious little The Way you shine. At the Diagonale’23.
ALMA & OSKAR
Alma & Oskar is not only the genesis of some of the most important paintings of the last century. Alma & Oskar is passion, desire, anger. A feature film that is extremely refined in its staging and is inspired by what has been made overseas, while showing its own, marked personality. At the Diagonale’23.
BREAKING THE ICE
Breaking the Ice is the story of a long and often painful growth path. The self discovery and the importance of interpersonal relationships. A completely personal, extremely intimate and never trivial story, with a strong, well-marked personality. At the Diagonale’23.
DUNKLE WASSER
Dark atmospheres, bleak landscapes and interpersonal relationships full of burning secrets are the absolute protagonists in Dunkle Wasser. The Riahi brothers, for their part, have mastered an impeccable and multifaceted screenplay, the highlight of which is the two detectives. At the Diagonale’23.
RAZZENNEST
Razzennest is a true visual and auditory experience. A bizarre, exhilarating and adrenaline-fuelled journey between past and present, or better still, into a present where the past is always ready to return more cruel and ruthless than ever. At the Diagonale’23.
MERMAIDS DON’T CRY
With Mermaids don’t cry, director Franziska Pflaum has realised a kind of delicate and symbolic contemporary fairytale, in which a magnetic protagonist represents a kind of postmodern heroine on her (often difficult) path towards a new self-awareness. At the Diagonale’23.