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  • Aloys (2016)
    Review preview for Aloys

    Nölle's greatest achievement is to keep the magic realist realm firmly anchored to the real so that reality feels touched by imagination rather than smothered by it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A private investigator is drawn into a mind game by a mysterious woman.
  • Breathing (2011)
    Review preview for Breathing

    Unfortunately, the strong performances and engaging visuals come together to form a film that ultimately seems to lack direction.

    Lindis Kipp · 3.5 out of 5
    A troubled young man on day release from prison takes a job in a morgue and is inspired to go looking for the mother who abandoned him as a baby.
  • Dog Days (2002)
    Sexual humiliation and dark desires amongst disillusioned overweight Austrians in hot weather.
  • Import/Export (2007)
    Review preview for Import/Export

    There is no denying the movie’s structural intensity, its social relevance, or the fact that it is hypnotic viewing.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    A man travels from Western to Eastern Europe while a woman travels in the opposite direction, yet their journeys have much in common.
  • Marija (2016)
    Review preview for Marija

    Margarita Breitkreiz gives a formidable performance.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A young cleaning women, suddenly unemployed, is willing to do anything to fulfil her dream of owning her own hairdressing salon.
  • Rimini (2022)
    Review preview for Rimini

    The director offers perhaps the best visual representation of the word ‘kitsch’ cinema has recently seen

    Dora Leu · 4 out of 5
    Rimini in winter. A group of older hotel guests is blissfully enjoying Richie Bravo singing about tears that hurt. But when his daughter holds up a mirror to his pathos, the past catches up with this star of schmaltz.
  • The Seventh Continent (1989)
    Review preview for The Seventh Continent

    A shattering indictment of contemporary society.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 4 out of 5
    The lives of a couple, whose successful appearance masks a deep malaise.
  • Sisi & I (2023)
    Review preview for Sisi & I

    Sisi & I weaves a tapestry of finely observed moments with the sparkling duo of Wolff and Hüller at the top of their game.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    In this wild reinterpretation of the “Sisi” myth, the focus is on Austrian Empress Elisabeth’s close friendship with her last lady-in-waiting, Irma Countess von Sztáray, who falls in love with the charismatic Sisi and is captivated by her modern ideas.
  • Wild (2016)
    Review preview for Wild

    The phrase 'brave performance' is vastly overused but there's no doubt Stangenberg puts herself at some risk here.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A woman begins to disconnect with civilisation after an encounter with a wolf.

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