SPAIN
Spain is a film that plays on the concepts of time, violence, but also loneliness and destiny through many stories of as many people who inevitably end up influencing one another.
Genre: ensemble movie
#LOVE
What is love? Reinterpreting Schnitzler’s La Ronde in a post-modern key and at the same time drawing an interesting fresco of the era in which we live, Ludwig Wüst’s #LOVE doesn’t want to give us definitive answers on the subject, but it does, however, make us realise how extraordinarily powerful, how wonderfully painful this feeling can be each time.
ASCHE
Asche is colourful, dazzling, overwhelming. Elena Wolff knows exactly what she wants to communicate to us, and she does so through scenes that will remain in our memory for a long, long time. At the Diagonale 2024.
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.
SPEAK EASY
In Speak Easy everyone talks to someone on the phone. Yet this could even be considered a film about incommunicability. Every teenager has his or her own language that is often incomprehensible to adults and, at the same time, every conversation is “filtered” through the telephone.
ANTARES
Divided into three episodes, Antares is a complex and layered fresco of contemporary society. Three stories, three different lifestyles, one setting. Antares does not only tell us about impossible loves, desperate loves, tormented loves and secret love affairs. Antares stages Love as utopia, a constant, desperate need for love that often also leads to a deep sense of loneliness.
71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE
It is based on a real-life news story 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance. In the film – which is divided into five chapters, each concerning a particular day – everything takes place from October 12 to December 23, 1993. Everything leads up to a single event in which all the characters will be involved in one way or another. But how important is the human being in this feature film by Michael Haneke?
ME, WE
Close-ups of thoughtful faces, contemplative sunsets over the sea, but also colourful handprints creating a big painting fully convey the essence of Me, We. At the Diagonale 2021.
AUFSCHNEIDER
Although Aufschneider stands out immediately for its television-like writing and directorial approach, everything flows in an overall linear way. Every single event, every single story of the characters are somehow connected. Often, however, also in an excessively predictable manner.
LAMORTE
Despite unconvincing moments from a directorial point of view, in many respects Lamorte turned out to be quite courageous and forward-looking, a small gem in the filmography of Xaver Schwarzenberger and of his wife Ulrike.