At the large, modern school where the contentious events of The Teachers’ Lounge unfurl, Carla Nowak is the newbie instructor, fresh-faced and eager. By the end of the film, she’s more chastened and anxious than bursting with gung-ho spirit — which is not to say she’s been defeated by the insanity around her. But she has learned a thing or two about the absurdity of organizational politics in the digital age of the antisocial socials, laid bare in İlker Çatak’s pointed yet never simplistic drama.
The outside world is barely glimpsed in the movie, and the microcosmic significance of the school premises, somewhere in Germany, couldn’t be clearer. As a smaller version of a contemporary tinderbox, the community of teachers, students, administrators and office workers that Çatak and his cast inhabit never feels overly weighted with symbolism. Its powder-keg dynamics are fully alive and infuriating, even as they transparently replicate,...
The outside world is barely glimpsed in the movie, and the microcosmic significance of the school premises, somewhere in Germany, couldn’t be clearer. As a smaller version of a contemporary tinderbox, the community of teachers, students, administrators and office workers that Çatak and his cast inhabit never feels overly weighted with symbolism. Its powder-keg dynamics are fully alive and infuriating, even as they transparently replicate,...
- 10/4/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films.
The release of six Swiss films including Locarno premiere Monte Verità is being supported by the country’s ‘Back to the Cinema’ campaign organised by the exhibitors’ trade association ProCinema with Chf 500,000 backing from the Federal Office of Culture (Bak).
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films which are each likely to attract more than 10,000 admissions throughout Switzerland as the cinemas reopen this summer.
Swiss distributors were invited to apply for support of...
The release of six Swiss films including Locarno premiere Monte Verità is being supported by the country’s ‘Back to the Cinema’ campaign organised by the exhibitors’ trade association ProCinema with Chf 500,000 backing from the Federal Office of Culture (Bak).
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films which are each likely to attract more than 10,000 admissions throughout Switzerland as the cinemas reopen this summer.
Swiss distributors were invited to apply for support of...
- 8/9/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films.
The release of six Swiss films including Locarno premiere Monte Verità is being supported by the country’s ‘Back to the Cinema’ campaign organised by the exhibitors’ trade association ProCinema with Chf 500,000 backing from the Federal Office of Culture (Bak).
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films which are each likely to attract more than 10,000 admissions throughout Switzerland as the cinemas reopen this summer.
Swiss distributors were invited to apply for support of...
The release of six Swiss films including Locarno premiere Monte Verità is being supported by the country’s ‘Back to the Cinema’ campaign organised by the exhibitors’ trade association ProCinema with Chf 500,000 backing from the Federal Office of Culture (Bak).
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films which are each likely to attract more than 10,000 admissions throughout Switzerland as the cinemas reopen this summer.
Swiss distributors were invited to apply for support of...
- 8/9/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
My Wonderful Wanda The Match Box Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Bettina Oberli Screenwriter: Cooky Ziesche, Bettina Oberli Cast: Agnieszka Grochowska, Marthe Keller, Birgit Minichmayr, Jacob Matschenz, André Jung, Anatole Taubman Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/15/20 Opens: Tbd at Tribeca Film Festival in […]
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The post My Wonderful Wanda Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 7/4/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The Match Factory, one of the world’s leading arthouse film sales companies, has revealed its slate for the Cannes Film Market, which runs June 22-26. Its lineup includes three market premieres: one new film, “Ballad for a Pierced Heart,” and two films that won jury awards at the online Tribeca Film Festival recently – “Kokoloko” and “My Wonderful Wanda.”
Following his cutting-edge “Stratos,” which played in Berlinale Competition in 2014, Yannis Economides is back with the gangster black comedy “Ballad for a Pierced Heart.” The story follows Olga, an attractive woman who decides to leave her husband, a businessman, for a nightclub owner and former pop singer. And as if this was not enough, she takes a million euros with her. While her husband becomes paranoid and vows to take revenge, the underworld in the small provincial town is in turmoil over the adulterous couple.
“Kokoloko,” directed by Mexico’s Gerardo Naranjo,...
Following his cutting-edge “Stratos,” which played in Berlinale Competition in 2014, Yannis Economides is back with the gangster black comedy “Ballad for a Pierced Heart.” The story follows Olga, an attractive woman who decides to leave her husband, a businessman, for a nightclub owner and former pop singer. And as if this was not enough, she takes a million euros with her. While her husband becomes paranoid and vows to take revenge, the underworld in the small provincial town is in turmoil over the adulterous couple.
“Kokoloko,” directed by Mexico’s Gerardo Naranjo,...
- 6/8/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The company has also secured deals on Berlin titles ‘Bad Tales’ and ‘Father’.
German sales firm The Match Factory has racked up sales on several Berlinale films, led by Christian Petzold’s competition title Undine.
The film, which won the Fipresci prize and Silver Bear for actress Paula Beer, has been sold to Spain (Golem), Benelux (Cherry Pickers), Italy (Europictures), Scandinavia (Future Film), Portugal (Leopardo), Austria (Polyfilm), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), ex-Yugoslavia (Demiurg), Greece (Ama), Hungary (Vertigo), Poland (Aurora), Romania (Independenta) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi).
IFC Films acquired Us rights to the film during the festival.
The drama, in...
German sales firm The Match Factory has racked up sales on several Berlinale films, led by Christian Petzold’s competition title Undine.
The film, which won the Fipresci prize and Silver Bear for actress Paula Beer, has been sold to Spain (Golem), Benelux (Cherry Pickers), Italy (Europictures), Scandinavia (Future Film), Portugal (Leopardo), Austria (Polyfilm), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), ex-Yugoslavia (Demiurg), Greece (Ama), Hungary (Vertigo), Poland (Aurora), Romania (Independenta) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi).
IFC Films acquired Us rights to the film during the festival.
The drama, in...
- 3/10/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
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