Winterstadt is a Swiss film, in which a number of alienated people are kind of washed up, without direction, in a cold, grey, faceless town somewhere in Central Europe.
The film is shot in black and white to great effect, by avoiding contrast. It is like Waiting for Godot in grayscale: Nothing happens, all conversation is pointless, everyone dreams of leaving, but no one does. Even the snow does nothing to brighten the scene. The absence of joy and sadness and anything but the most superficial and false emotion makes this film even more depressing than a full-blown tragedy.
This film is interesting from the point of view of an experiment. The town is a petri dish or a test tube, but the contents are inert, interaction does not heat up and the project is discarded.
The film is shot in black and white to great effect, by avoiding contrast. It is like Waiting for Godot in grayscale: Nothing happens, all conversation is pointless, everyone dreams of leaving, but no one does. Even the snow does nothing to brighten the scene. The absence of joy and sadness and anything but the most superficial and false emotion makes this film even more depressing than a full-blown tragedy.
This film is interesting from the point of view of an experiment. The town is a petri dish or a test tube, but the contents are inert, interaction does not heat up and the project is discarded.