René Rupnik

  • Ulrich Seidl – Der Busenfreund AKA The Bosom Friend (1997)

    1991-2000AustriaDocumentaryUlrich Seidl

    A 1997 TV film. Two descriptions:

    “Main character of this movie is Rene Rupnik, a former math teacher. He is forty years old and lives together with his mother in a desolate block of flats. Ever since his early youth women with big breasts have fascinated him, because they symbolise a kind of earth mother to him. He has never had an especially close relationship with his own mother; she was too ‘bony’ for him. Object of Rene’s fantasy is the actress Senta Berger, to him everything a woman should be. Standing by the blackboard and explaining the mathematical laws of sine and cosine (‘sinus’ is bosom in Latin), Rene sings the praises of the female curves and those of Santa Berger in particular. Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl let the former teacher speak freely about his obsessions and desires, intercutting his monologues with scenes from the protagonist’s day-to-day life.”Read More »

  • Ulrich Seidl – Paradies: Glaube AKA Paradise: Faith (2012)

    Drama2011-2020ArthouseAustriaUlrich Seidl
    Paradies- Glaube (2012)

    Synopsis:
    Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence, her life is turned upside down.Read More »

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