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The Manns - Novel of a Century

Vorstadtweiber

The Conference


            The film's entire premise rests on the two elderly spouses, Candelaria and Victor Hugo, played harmoniously and with enormous sensitivity by Cuban actors Veronica Lynn and Alden Knight. The director is let into their house, with its peeling walls, where every evening they have dinner by candlelight - not because of any particular spark of passion, but rather owing to Havana's rationed electricity supply. Their monotonous lives drift by, as they eat their meagre meals and are forced to endure all kinds of deprivation. They tend to a quintet of chicks in their house as if they were their children, Candelaria sings in a bar for tourists, and Victor Hugo sells stolen cigars on the sly so that he can afford to buy meat once in a while. One day, however, the discovery of a video camera mislaid by some foreign holidaymaker serves to turn the routine of the husband and wife on its head. What should they do? Return it, sell it on, or hang onto this forbidden object?
Just when it seems to have arrived at the very core of its narrative - involving the mischievous game that the two spouses engage in thanks to the presence of the video camera in the house, which stirs up an unexpected passion in them - Hendrix Hinestroza's movie unfurls an additional and surprising scenario that sees the couple subject to an indecent proposal from an unscrupulous receiver of stolen goods (Austrian actor Philipp Hochmair). The question at this point becomes a different one: what are we willing to do to lead a slightly more comfortable life? And when is it time to say enough is enough? By Vittoria Scarpa as provided in cineuropa.org.
    

Candelaria

Eine Liebe für den Frieden - Bertha von Suttner und Alfred Nobel

Freud

The Fatherless

Tomcat


            Summertime. Everybody is excited to go on vacation to Italy. Everybody but Jasmin. Jasmin is yearning something. She wants to be with Eva, her mother, from whom she had to live seperately for a long time. For weeks, Jasmin is trying to get close to Eva. She does not give up, even if she's rejected. After an argument, Jasmin runs away from her fosterhome and convinces Eva to leave the city together and go on a trip. The two get closer -- sometimes as friends, sometimes as mother and daughter. A first joint cigarette, a dance in the village disco, wanderings through the woods. But expectations and needs of the girl and her mother are diverging repeatedly, especially when a man attracts Eva's attention and disturbs the growing closeness between mother and daughter.Talea is Italian and means cion, offshoot, sprout.
    

Talea


            At the beginning of the film are the two Viennese students Hanna and Lea. Both come from the countryside , both are new to the city and both keep afloat with temporary jobs in the catering trade . Since there is not enough money from the waiters at the back and front, they decide to consider the job offer of an escort agency. The agency is operated by Mario and his wife Sissi. The agency is small; the manners accordingly informal. Sissi teaches the basics of the pay sex industry in a rather casual way. Sissi's advice to Lea: "You have to give the customer the feeling that he is something special. If you can do that, you are something special for him, understand? " And: " Perfume and body lotion must be from the same brand . A smell, a story, remember that. More confuses the men . " This was the first rule. Rule number two is loud: cash in beforehand.The balancing act between studies, pay-sex business and private life is initially rather unspectacular. Lea meets Claus, an old acquaintance from the village, in the disco . When she is about to get involved in a tech deal with him, she is ordered to a customer. Meanwhile, art history student Hanna befriends Harald ( Adrian Topol ), whom she met while studying, but leaves him in the dark about her part-time job. The meetings with the escort customers are presented as rather casual, incidental, sometimes banal. There is the old man wearing women's underwear under his clothes. There is the alert young manager who wants a special kick and likes to have sex in the elevator . The nice family man who steals away from his family for pay sex. The inhibited, dependent sprout from a good family. At first glance, all of these meetings remain on the surface - whereby the new job not only comes up with situation comedy, but also with uncomplicated, generally pleasant meetings. Joy and suffering: Pay sex - a job just like any other.As the film progresses, the different worlds become more and more confused. Lea, who wants to study acting , fails the entrance examination at the drama school . The escort meetings are more and more about the substance. Subtle but ubiquitous border crossings are increasing, as is the increasing estrangement from studying. Step by step notice Lea and Hanna: The two worlds are not easily compatible with each other - they are not even clearly separable. A key experience is the unexpected meeting of Hanna and Harald again - this time in the form of a customer date for which she was ordered. An experience that forces both women to make a decision is meeting a businessman who starts in a pleasant atmosphere and ends in massive border crossings. The end of the film: Lea gives up the pay-sex job and returns disillusioned to the country. Hanna calls herself Lea and continues. However, the friendship between the two has irrevocably broken.
    

Philipp Hochmair

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