In The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penality Kick, based on Peter Handke’s short story of the same name, Wim Wenders’ cinema is there. And, despite the director’s lack of experience behind the camera, the film presaged what would one day become the renowned director from Düsseldorf.
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.
Chasing the Line focuses entirely on its charismatic protagonist – the legendary Austrian ski champion Franz Klammer – and, at the same time, provides an exhaustive portrait of the sport world and all its most controversial aspects.
In Madison, the Tyrolean mountains provide the perfect setting for wild bike rides, tortuous curves and steep descents. And the director’s camera handles the space perfectly, moves with agility along the slopes and trails, and gives us welcome adrenalin-fuelled moments. At the Diagonale 2021.
Enriched by sporadic animation inserts, Gipsy Queen leaves many questions open and deliberately does not give the audience definitive answers. On the contrary, as we approach the finale, it increasingly takes on a symbolic and at times surreal connotation.
Fully following the canons of the mainstream television film that we all too often come across in German productions, North Face, co-produced by Germany, Austria and Switzerland and directed by German director Philipp Stölzl, doesn’t know how to exploit its opportunities (first and foremost, the climb undertaken by the four protagonists), making the whole thing excessively flat and rhythmless.