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"Cinema can also fight against loneliness." (Mathieu Amalric)

 

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FRANCE
Bruno Dumont
25.10.: 20:00 - GARTENBAUKINO
26.10.: 14:00 - GARTENBAUKINO

“Eclectic” is a word that only begins to describe the filmmaking of Bruno Dumont, whose films have run the gamut from stark, minimalist realism to surrealist slapstick. In a career defined by the unexpected, Dumont may have delivered his biggest surprise yet with FRANCE. Léa Seydoux stars as France de Meurs, a dynamic TV journalist driven by ambition and narcissism, someone who always seems to make the story about her. However, when a traffic accident does in fact place France at the center of a scandal, she experiences an existential crisis. How can she live in a reality that exceeds her ability to control the narrative?
FRANCE is a dark comedy of sorts, one that presents a critique of mass media which is vicious yet precise, showing exactly how the human misery that comprises so much TV news is shaped into bite- sized mini-dramas for Western consumption. But Dumont does not stop there. With unexpected formal flourishes that recall the great Douglas Sirk, FRANCE suggests the roiling inner life of a woman who may not actually have one. Whether reporting from a war-torn village or falling into an unexpected affair, France sees all scenarios exactly the same: a soap opera in which she is the undisputed star. (Michael Sicinski)

In the presence of Bruno Dumont.

PILIGRIMAI
Laurynas Bareiša
26.10.: 18:30 - URANIA
28.10.: 20:30 - STADTKINO IM KÜNSTLERHAUS

PILGRIMS is a work of fiction that emerges directly from elements of reality: a newspaper article, the space occupied by a small town, and its surroundings. A young man and a young woman drive from Vilnius to a village to find out something.The viewer is given very little information, and as the film proceeds, we slowly start to understand what happened and what reunites them. There is a sense of familiarity, and of sharing the trauma of a horrible event. They both have a profound need to understand, but they couldn’t be more different. One moves with aggressiveness, the other moves with care, but they both need the same thing: to be in contact with the last people and spaces Matas’ was in contact with, to sink into his waters, to believe that a person’s presence remains beyond death. Where does violence come from? Is it personal? Is it historical? Is it embedded in the land? As they move through the events, Laurynas Bareisa’s film asks itself all these questions, examining not only one single crime, but also larger questions of national identity.
(Lucía Salas)

In the presence of LAURYNAS BAREIŠA.

IN-TEU-RO-DEOK-SYEON
Hong Sangsoo
26.10.: 23:15 - STADTKINO KÜNSTLERHAUS
29.10.: 13:30 - FILMMUSEUM

A young actor is doubting his profession due to his belief that the interpretation of feelings and embraces in cinema are not believable. This is more than enough to allow Hong to condense his focused clarity and effortlessly express it in one of his recurring studies about the sentimental (lack of) communication between men and women of a certain class, who belong to the arts and are moored somewhere between youth and maturity. The ingenuity of the Korean filmmaker here consists in sustaining the anecdote alluded to as the omnipresent substance of the tale, dividing it into three episodes (two in Korea and one in Germany) and adding the presence of the characters that it needs: the main character’s separated parents, the girlfriend, a friend, a famous actor, and the father’s secretary. These characters and various situations devoid of dramatism are enough to demonstrate, paradoxically, that embraces and feelings in the cinema can indeed be made believable. Hong’s poetics remain the same: the filmmaker’s characteristic zooms, the magnificent introduction of a dream, the perfection decision in terms of how to film snow, trees, and sea without overreacting to their beauty, and the precision of the tale’s temporality place this brief, pleasant incursion within Hong’s customary symbolic and aesthetic realm. (Roger Koza)

TOUT S'EST BIEN PASSÉ
François Ozon 
26.10.: 23:15 - GARTENANBAUKINO
29.10.: 06:30 - GARTENANBAUKINO -
as part of the Ö1 Breakfast Films
29.10.: 16:00 - URANIA

A stroke leaves André half paralyzed, hardly being able to talk or eat. His chances of getting better are close to zero. Struggling with both self-pity and anger, he decides to end his life. But he cannot put himself out of his misery alone, he needs his daughters’ help. On paper, François Ozon’s latest character study reads like a routine French art house drama, but surprisingly the film takes a swift turn into more eccentric territories.
Based on an autobiographical memoir by former Ozon collaborator Emmanuèle Bernheim (1955-2017), TOUT S’EST BIEN PASSÉ sees the stylistically ever volatile director exploring the boundary region between farce and tragedy. Under the surface of a conventional drama on medically assisted suicide lurks a quirky (and rather morbid) upper class family comedy; in a way, Ozon is returning to the freshness of one of his early successes in the form of SITCOM, but 23 years on he is a much more assured storyteller, capable of more intricate emotional nuances. Sophie Marceau and Géraldine Pailhas as the skeptical sisters carry the weight of the ethical debate, while a superb André Dussollier grabs his chance to ham it up as the egocentric dad pestering his offspring until the very end. (Stefan Grissemann)

 

EINIGE UNSERER HEUTIGEN GÄSTE!

Meiske Taurisia
Producer of
 SEPERTI DENDAM, RINDU HARUS DIBAYAR TUNTAS

Marta Popivoda
Director of
PEJZAŽI OTPORA

Peter Tscherkassky
Director of
TRAIN AGAIN

Ted Fendt
Director of
OUTSIDE NOISE

Andrea Arnold
Director of
COW

Guillaume Cailleau
Director of
LABORAT

Ephraim Asili
Director of
THE INHERITANCE

Mia Hansen-Løve
Director of
BERGMAN ISLAND

Milena Czernovsky
Director of
BEATRIX

Lilith Kraxner
Director of
BEATRIX

Eva Sommer
Actor in
BEATRIX

Antonia de la Luz Kašik 
Cinematography of
BEATRIX

 

 

WAS PASSIERT HEUTE IN DER VIENNALE BAR?

So., 24.10.
BAR: 15.00 FESTIVALS ON FESTIVALS discussion:
Carlo Chatrian (Berlinale), Maialen Beloki (San Sebastián Film Festival), Paolo Moretti (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes) und Giona Nazzaro (Locarno Film Festival); Moderation: Eva Sangiorgi. afterwards: Samir (Soulseduction);
Music inspired by: THE INHERITANCE

VIDEO DES TAGES

C.B. Yi after the screening of MONEYBOYS.

 

PRESSESTIMMEN

ORF: Kultur Heute: Eröffnung des Filmfestivals VIENNALE