5 Luglio 2020

Known as the “Blade Runner”, the athlete made history last year when he was the first leg amputee to take part in the Olympic Games.

The athlete known as the “Blade Runner” made history last year when he became the first leg amputee to take part in the Olympic Games. He was started on high-tech carbon prostheses in London. At the age of eleven months, both lower legs had been amputated as a result of a genetic defect. He won six gold medals at the Paralympics.

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This year’s edition of the Viennale, the 50th anniversary edition as it were, is now half over again. Halfway through the Vienna International Film Festival, it makes sense to take stock. And, like the festival itself, it is also divided into two parts.

We live in the age of the internet: Facebook and Co dominate the world. All information is accessible anytime and anywhere, more and more choice and the subsequent tendency to divide it into smaller, more compact pieces. The length of the possible attention span of people who spend more and more time in the media is constantly decreasing – as is their ability to see things in a big context.

Concepts and emotions in short supply

This socio-political development can partly be recognized in the films of this year’s Viennale. For example in the US indie production “Somebody Up There Likes Me”. This follows Max, an inconspicuous and also uninteresting protagonist. Max initially catches his ex-wife in bed with another man. Disappointed, he leaves to follow the advice of a friend and marry the next best woman “because it doesn’t make any difference anyway,” he advises. If director Bob Byington manages to elicit a smile or two from the audience at the beginning, that will subside as the film progresses.

The reason: Max experiences a lot, the film accompanies him through his life in five-year steps, but the whole story (where you ask yourself: what is the story?) Just seems to be thrown away, without a big concept behind it. As a result, the viewer quickly loses interest and the urgent need to know what happens next. In addition, there is the complete lack of emotion with which everything happens. Does someone die? It doesn’t matter, that’s the way it is. Is the woman or the man cheating? It doesn’t matter, that’s the way it is.123 help me login

Similarly unstructured and characterized by a lack of emotion is “Tower”, a Canadian indie production that also wants to be designed as a comedy. She follows Derek, an already ambitious guy. He still lives with his parents and walks past his own life like a sleepwalker. The camera follows him – unbearably jerky – during completely irrelevant encounters and activities. Likewise without a concept, scenes of an uninteresting and almost unsympathetic protagonist who lack emotions – and above all a big picture – are thrown back here again.

The Italian filmmakers Maria Helene Bertino, Dario Castelli and Alessandro Gagliardo also have to put up with the accusation of lack of ideas. Perhaps wrongly too, but “Un Mito Antropologico Televisio” (“An anthropological television myth”) throws archive images from Sicilian private TV channels in the early 1990s at the viewer without any explanation. A fact that only becomes apparent after the discussion. True to the motto “eat or die”. And again: appetizers, completely unrelated.

Exceptional jewels

But there are always exceptions that confirm a rule. One of these is the coming-of-age comedy “Electrick Children”, a warm, loving and emotionally charged directorial debut by Mormon Rebecca Thomas, who also sets the film in this Mileu. Rachel, the daughter of the local Mormon priest, learns of an immaculate conception by secretly listening to a rock’n’roll tape. Of course, nobody believes her and so the girl (played by the wonderfully brilliant, 18-year-old Julia Garner) sets off to Las Vegas to find the rock’n’roll voice that works. It goes without saying that two worlds collide here. A grandiose, coherent and well-rounded indie fairy tale.

Another exception is the Austrian film “The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich” by Antonin Svoboda. Atypical for an Austro production, a well-thought-out story is told here from start to finish, namely that of the psychoanalyst and researcher Wilhelm Reich, who was persecuted by the US secret service in the last years of his life due to his revolutionary teachings. Despite the complex topic, Svoboda and main actor Klaus Maria Brandauer manage to cast a spell over the viewer and not really let them go after leaving the cinema.

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Anyone who is in Vienna’s city center these days will not be able to avoid the Viennale: massive triangular stands in front of the central cinemas announce the largest film festival in the country, the letters of the festival adorn the Fischer lights above the cinema entrances, the ticket offices in front of the museum quarter and at Schottentor are constantly besieged by young and old cineastes. When the 51st edition starts tonight in the Gartenbaukino with the folk tragic comedy “” Inside Llewyn Lewis “” by the Coen brothers and in the presence of celebrities from politics and culture, Vienna will be in the theatrical exceptional state for twelve days.

Announced for the opening include the authors Louis Begley and Robert Schindel, numerous filmmakers such as Stefan Ruzowitzky, Karl Markovics, Peter Patzak and Peter Kubelka as well as well-known actors such as Peter Simonischek, Elfriede Ott and Johanna Wokalek. ORF General Director Alexander Wrabetz and the outgoing Minister of Culture Claudia Schmied (SPÖ) apparently don’t want to miss the infamous opening speech by long-term festival director Hans Hurch. And given the coalition negotiations that have just begun, this will also be very political, Hurch promised a (night) dream scenario from the meeting room.

Presale makes Hurch happy

Hurch was very satisfied with the advance sales of the festival, which sold around 40,000 tickets on the first weekend alone and has regularly attracted 100,000 visitors for several years. “” For me the numbers are of course also, but not that important, “” said Hurch. For the festival team, however, 54 sold out performances after three days mean a confirmation of their own work. In total, the Viennale will show more than 300 feature, documentary and short films in 353 screenings until November 6th. The US comedian Will Ferrell, the French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, the former racing driver Jackie Stewart and the acting legend Jean-Pierre Leaud are expected as star guests.

Local film food is also included

Austrian cinema is represented with the two feature films “October November” “by Götz Spielmann and” “Shirley – Visions of Reality” “by Gustav Deutsch as well as four new documentaries and four short films each. Specials are dedicated to the young experimental filmmakers Johann Lurf and Claudia Larcher. Minority coproductions include the “” Grand Central “” by Rebecca Zlotowski, filmed in Hainburg, and Lanzmann’s “The Last of the Unjust” “, which will be presented in a gala on the first Sunday of the festival. The Viennale trailer was designed by the Iranian Shirin Neshat with Natalie Portman in the leading role. The accompanying retrospective at the Filmmuseum has been focusing on Jerry Lewis since October 18th.

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When the summer is finally over and the trees lose their leaves, the movie buffs are happy: Because autumn means Viennale time. From October 24th to November 6th, Vienna’s international film festival will open its doors again and move people into the cinemas and thus into distant worlds, most of which, thank God, are far from Hollywood. Now the big anniversary, the 50th edition, is already a year in the past, but even in the year after the big party the film festival is not too tired to unearth big and small film jewels and present them to the Viennese audience. In the following Viennale overview, NEWS.AT has picked out the highlights:

Blue jasmine

(by Woody Allen, USA 2013, feature film) As sure as the Viennale comes back every year, Woody Allen delivers a new film every year. After the rather mediocre “To Rome With Love”, the cult director finds his way back to old forms in “Blue Jasmine”. It shows two dissimilar sisters, Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins. The former belongs or belonged to the New York upper class, because overnight her husband (Alec Baldwin) and with it the prosperity are lost and so Jasmine seeks refuge with her sister Ginger, a mother and housewife in poorer San Francisco. A heartbreaking and at the same time bitterly angry, cynical tragic comedy in the style of the Woody Allen we love. November 2nd, 9 p.m., Gartenbaukino November, 11 a.m., Gartenbaukino

Nebraska

(by Alexander Payne, USA 2012, fictional film) Alexander Payne can pin himself on the flags as calm as it is wonderful films like “The Descendants” or “Sideways”. His latest work portrays Woody, an older man and somehow also a weirdo who set out to seek the luck that an advertising message promised him. The fact that he doesn’t get far doesn’t detract from the quality of this loving and patient film. October, 8.30 p.m., Gartenbaukino5. November, 11 a.m., Gartenbaukino

Night moves

(by Kelly Reichardt, USA 2013, feature film) Kelly Reichardt’s films are never easy, just think of “Wendy and Lucy” or the idiosyncratic Western blend “Meek’s Cutoff”. Nevertheless, it is worth the time to devote yourself to the director’s films, because you will be richly rewarded every time. In “Night Moves” Reichardt is now devoting himself to three eco-freaks who commit an act of terror against the destroyers of nature, in which an innocent person has to lose his life. The dream of a better world becomes a nightmare of persecution. “Night Moves” is an intense and dark film. October 30, 9 p.m., Gartenbaukino November, 10.30 a.m., Gartenbaukino

Pardé

(by Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi, Iran 2013, feature film) Already in 2011 he delivered one of the most impressive films of the Viennale: Jafar Panahi. The Iranian director was arrested three years ago for his opposition to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and sentenced to a six-year prison term and a twenty-year professional ban. The filmmaker is currently under house arrest. During this arrest and depression, his latest film, “Pardé”, was made, which has already been shown in Berlin. Like “In Film Nist”, “Pardé” is about the filmmaker himself, even if this time it’s not a documentary. Panahi’s friend and co-director, Kamboziya Partovi, plays a writer who writes a script in a closed room until he receives an unwelcome visit. Panahi wants to show his world again and does not let himself get down. October, 1.30 p.m., Urania3. November, 6 p.m., Gartenbaukino

Le Passé

(by Asghar Farhadi, F / I 2013, feature film) He is the director of “Nadar and Simin”. Asghar Farhadi was also awarded the Oscar for best foreign language film last year for his brilliant masterpiece – more than rightly. In “Le Passé” the filmmaker creates another work about interpersonal emotions on complex levels: Samir returns to Paris to divorce his French wife, but the plan turns out to be an effort and the couple is caught up with the past, Marie’s new husband and the children are also involved. You can – not least thanks to Berénice Bejo as Marie – get ready for a rollercoaster ride of emotions. November 1st, 6 p.m., Gartenbaukino November, 1.30 p.m. Stadtkino in the Künstlerhaus

Razredni Sovraznik (Class Enemy)

(by Rok Bicek, Slovenia 2013, feature film) When the school class gets a new German teacher who is strict and uncomprehending, he soon gets the nickname “the Nazi”. Then a student commits suicide and the educator is found guilty of it. The students become inquisitors and turn against their teacher, an uncontrollable force arises from the group dynamics and with Fabio Stoll’s camera, which is never quiet, a film is created that is bursting with unrest even in its quiet moments. A great debut film that will definitely make director Rok Bicek one of the greats. PS: “Die Welle” sends its regards. Rok Bicek is present. October 27, 8:30 p.m., Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus October, 1.30 p.m., Urania

Tonnerre

(by Guillaume Brac, France 2013, feature film) Guillaume Brac was also a Viennale guest last year with two films. With the short film “Le Naufragé” and “Un Monde Sans Femmes”, the French director delivers delicate as well as wonderful films that are bursting with involuntary comedy. Anyone who watches “Tonnerre” will have a déjà vu, especially with the actor: Vincent Macaigne is already known from the first-mentioned films, now he plays Maxime, a rock musician who has bunkered down in his father’s house to record an album until he meets the enchanting 21-year-old Mélodie who enchants the rocker.

Known as the “Blade Runner”, the athlete made history last year when he was the first leg amputee to take part in the Olympic Games.

Known as the “Blade Runner”, the athlete made history last year when he was the first leg amputee to take part in the Olympic Games.

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Concepts and emotions in short supply

Exceptional jewels

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Presale makes Hurch happy

Local film food is also included

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Blue jasmine

Nebraska

Night moves

Pardé

Le Passé

Razredni Sovraznik (Class Enemy)

Tonnerre

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