In Barbara Albert's FALLING, five independent women are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. As the five women reconnect, a day of sober mourning turns into a night of sybaritic celebration. From the director of FREE RADICALS!
A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, we follow her daughter, ... See full summary »
Director:
Barbara Albert
Stars:
Kathrin Resetarits,
Ursula Strauss,
Georg Friedrich
The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which ... See full summary »
Director:
Barbara Albert
Stars:
Anna Fischer,
Hanns Schuschnig,
August Zirner
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young ... See full summary »
Director:
Barbara Albert
Stars:
Nina Proll,
Edita Malovcic,
Astrit Alihajdaraj
An anthology film is a collection of short film projects by different directors for a common aim. Usually they are unified by a common theme - in this case, the European Union.
Two women spend a weekend together at the North Sea. Walks on the beach, fish buns at a snack stand, mobile weather forecasts. Sky, horizon, water. One of them will soon return to her ... See full summary »
Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying. Freder sets about savagely ... See full summary »
In Barbara Albert's FALLING, five independent women are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. As the five women reconnect, a day of sober mourning turns into a night of sybaritic celebration. From the director of FREE RADICALS!
Quality movie with an interesting set of characters and twists. My problem with the movie is the with the style. Make up your mind. Are you a 50's style murder mystery where you feel compelled to provide voice overs for the slow witted in the audience?, or are you a new wave thriller where we decide whether or not and who the evil guys are. Great premise for a movie but way too switchy in format for me. As soon as I got interested the style changed to something new that I had to readjust to. Actually watched this movie twice, three years apart. My opinion changed only slightly towards a more positive view. I suspect this was due to what I now knew to expect after working through my problems the first time.
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Quality movie with an interesting set of characters and twists. My problem with the movie is the with the style. Make up your mind. Are you a 50's style murder mystery where you feel compelled to provide voice overs for the slow witted in the audience?, or are you a new wave thriller where we decide whether or not and who the evil guys are. Great premise for a movie but way too switchy in format for me. As soon as I got interested the style changed to something new that I had to readjust to. Actually watched this movie twice, three years apart. My opinion changed only slightly towards a more positive view. I suspect this was due to what I now knew to expect after working through my problems the first time.