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In this intriguing experiment, four Austrian filmmakers (Barbara Albert, Michael Glawogger, Ulrich Seidl, Michael Sturminger) take their cameras to the streets to find out what’s going on in their country, most notably why in the last election the country elected a far-right candidate (Jörg Haider) to the presidency. The film is divided into six documentary segments of varying lengths, capturing the rhythms of life around the country.

Zur.Lage.Oesterreich.in.6.Kapiteln.Xvid.KG-stahl.avi

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Ulrich Seidl, Barbara Albert, Michael Glawogger, Michael Sturminger – Zur Lage: Österreich in sechs Kapiteln AKA State of the Nation: Austria in Six Chapters (2002) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.

Nordrand.mkv

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, Italian

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Directed by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Barbara Albert, Falling is a “charming, intelligent and low-key” human drama about five independent women, former classmates who have forged different lives since their school days, who are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. Nina is drifting through existence with neither a job, nor a father for her unborn child. Shy, ethereal Brigitte has followed the group’s idol into education and activism. Alex is a buttoned-down career woman struggling to balance personal needs with professional goals. Cool, calm actress Carmen uses her art to avoid genuine intimacy, while loose cannon Nicole desperately seeks to be closer with her estranged young daughter Daphne.

As the five women reconnect, a day of sober mourning turns into a night of sybaritic celebration. Nina, Brigitte, Alex, Carmen, Nicole and Daphne share secrets large and small while reopening wounds old and new. Nina struggles to accept the prospect of sharing her half-lived life with an unwanted child. Alex tries to lose herself in a random and passionless act of debauchery. Carmen and Brigitte confess to a devastating shared past love, and Nicole reveals just how far into the margins of society she has wandered. The reunion transforms into a journey, and Falling’s funny, bittersweet drama becomes an impressionistic road movie that keenly essays contemporary women’s lives by connecting the fragile emotional truth of youthful idealism with the stark facts of adult reality. (KINO)

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Barbara Albert – Fallen aka Falling (2006) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The film deals with the story of my grandfather, who was an SS officer. He died in 1999, when I was 29 – and I really loved him… Barbara Albert

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Language(s):German (& some English and Polish)
Subtitles:German (hardcoded for non-German parts)

The post Barbara Albert – Die Lebenden AKA The Dead and The Living (2012) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
A blind pianist living in 18th-century Vienna forms an extraordinary relationship with the physician who is trying to restore her sight.

Review:
Using a period-drama story set in the 18th century, Austrian filmmaker Barbara Albert explores the role of women in contemporary society and their need for freedom of choice.

Barbara Albert is one of the most celebrated personalities in Austrian cinema, active in various different fields as a director, writer, producer and actress. As a director, she introduced herself in 1999 with her debut, Nordrand, which was awarded at Venice. Her next films, Free Radicals (2003), Falling [+] (2006) and The Dead and the Living [+] (2012), were included in competition at many film festivals. Mademoiselle Paradis [+] is Albert’s fifth feature and is currently taking part in the Platform section of the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival.
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At just 18 years of age, aristocrat Maria Theresia (“Resi”) Paradis (Maria-Victoria Dragus) is a real wunderkind. She lost her eyesight as a child, but she’s an incredibly talented pianist, a close friend of Mozart’s and fairly famous in 18th-century Viennese society. In their quest to restore her vision, her parents come across Franz Anton Mesmer (Devid Striesow), a notorious “miracle” doctor who practises a controversial method. By following Mesmer’s radical treatment, Resi will start regaining her vision. Simultaneously, her musical virtuosity starts to decline, along with her fame, too. Now she has to face a dilemma between art and her health.

Mademoiselle Paradis is a dark period drama, elegantly depicted through Christine A Maier’s cinematography, and set in the culturally vibrant Habsburgian era. Albert was inspired by the true story of Paradis, whose work did not survive in its entirety. The film is an adaptation of the successful novel Mesmerized by Alissa Walser, and the script was penned by Kathrin Resetarits. Incidentally, this is the first film that Albert has directed without also writing it.

Even though the story is set in 1777, the topics it deals with are still contemporary. Resi, mesmerisingly portrayed by rising star Dragus, is a true pioneer of her generation, in an open-minded but still excessively austere artistic society. She’s only accepted on account of her talent and her disability combined. When she starts losing one of her skills, she must face up to reality and observe how a so-called cultured society deals with someone who dares to differ, especially when it is a woman who is demanding respect on her own merits, and her freedom. In order to break free from socially imposed constraints, she has to let go of something, and there emerges the moral question of how far Resi should go just to feel accepted.

Doctor Mesmer may seemingly be the only one who truly cares about Paradis’ health, but he still treats her as just another attraction for the bourgeoisie. He persuades her to sacrifice the images conjured up by the music, which are the source of her virtuosity, in favour of a substitute reality, just to prove himself correct. The film is built on constant fights between antithetic pairs – between bleak reality and bright fantasy, between liberating art and constrained science, and between cynical rationalism and Rococo romanticism. Mademoiselle Paradis is not a movie that talks about the past, because just like Resi, there are still women today who are forced to choose between a depressing but secure darkness, and a frightening but awfully revealing light.

— Vassilis Economou (Cineuropa.org).

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