A script full of sometimes forced gags, clichés, and many (too many) flashbacks has made Neo Nuggets a film that undoubtedly makes its audience laugh, but which, despite the undoubted talent of most of the cast, inevitably ends up being rather predictable.
Starboys is an amusing comedy that makes the right timing and hilarious, paradoxical situations, in which there is also a welcome touch of adrenalin, its workhorses. At the K3 Film Festival 2024.
In Operation White Christmas, successful action scenes and a good pace that characterises the entire feature film from beginning to end pleasantly entertain the viewer, giving him an experience that is rarely enjoyed in domestic cinema. At the K3 Film Festival 2023.
An exciting and extremely topical thriller, Cold Hell is a much more complex and layered work than it may at first seem. Stefan Ruzowitzky has made not only a fresco of the city of Vienna in all its multiculturalism and controversial aspects, but also – and above all – a film that brings up complex and sensitive issues such as racism and patriarchy.
Warning Triangle skilfully plays with a few, simple elements that represent, at the same time, true cornerstones of film history, never entirely obsolete, but always topical and captivating. And so, inevitably, we also notice a subtle irony, together with a sincere reverence towards not only the films mentioned here, but also towards the entire seventh art.
No one is really innocent or completely guilty in Hold-Up. Or, better still, each of the three characters is both victim and executioner at the same time. And this feature film by Florian Flicker stands out above all for its good screenplay, thanks to which moments of tension cleverly alternate with much more light-hearted scenes.
Fast paced, impeccable editing, an apparent daily routine that opens the feature immediately give us the idea of a thrilling action film, given also – and above all – the particular setting chosen by the director. And, in fact, there is plenty of action in Cops. And yet, this feature film is not just that.
This brilliant Caviar – Elena Tikhonova’s second feature – boasts rhythms that are well marked both by an expert and self-conscious direction – complete with short animation inserts and Tarantino-like titling – and by an appropriate, lively and distinctive, but never over the top, musical score.
7500 – the debut feature by young Patrick Vollrath – relies almost exclusively on action scenes that do not let themselves be constrained by the limited space available, as well as by a good script and, last but not least, the face of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, always on the piece and never over the top.
Watching a film like Exit…but no Panic, Franz Novotny’s first feature film, can be compared to a rollercoaster ride. Irreverent, shocking, surprising, funny and amusing, this work has become a real cult in Austrian cinema.