Aloys (2016)

A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.

Director:

Tobias Nölle

Writer:

Tobias Nölle

Stars:

Georg Friedrich, Tilde von Overbeck, Kamil Krejcí

6 wins & 13 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Georg Friedrich	...	Aloys Adorn
Tilde von Overbeck	...	Vera
Kamil Krejcí	...	Herr Schoch
Yufei Li	...	Yen Lee
Koi Lee	...	Herr Lee
Sebastian Krähenbühl	...	Hauswart
Karl Friedrich	...	Vater Aloys
Peter Zumstein	...	Bestatter
Agnes Lampkin	...	Julie Kramer
Rahel Hubacher	...	Schwangere Frau
Haroldo Simao	...	Drag Queen
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tobias Bienz	...	DJ
Aaron Hitz	...	Gonzo
Barblin Leggio-Hänseler	...	Polizistin Wohnung
Benjamin Merz	...	Polizist Lift 2

Storyline

Aloys Adorn is a middle aged private detective who lives and works with his father. He experiences life from a safe distance, through a video camera he keeps recording 24 hours a day, and the massive collection of surveillance tapes he organizes and obsessively watches at home. But when his father dies, Aloys is left on his own and his sheltered existence begins to fall apart. After a night of heavy drinking, Aloys wakes up on a public bus to find that his camera and precious observation tapes have been stolen. Soon after, a mysterious woman calls to blackmail him. She offers to return the tapes if Aloys will try an obscure Japanese invention called 'telephone walking' with her, using his imagination as their only connection. As he is drawn deeper and deeper, falling in love with the voice on the other end of the phone, the woman opens up a new universe that may allow Aloys to break out of his isolation and into the real world.

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Plot Keywords:

one word title | written by director | mortuary | feather | dead body | 

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Aloys Adorn is played by Georg Friedrich while his father is played by Georg's real life father Karl Friedrich, who is otherwise not an actor.

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Goofs

The piano is actually a keyboard.

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Quotes

Aloys Adorn: Listen here, young lady...

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Soundtracks

Bellow Memories
Produced, arranged and composed by Tom Huber & Beat Jegen.
Vinyl/Digital Release 31.3.2016 @ Spezialmaterial
www.jegenhuber.com

User Reviews

Movie starts mysteriously promising. Yet after half an hour the film makers got overly obsessed with mixing reality and fantasy. They lost the story line, and lost us viewers

Seen at the IMAGINE film festival 2017 in Amsterdam. Despite technically nothing wrong with this movie, I fail to find anything remarkable in it, no logical dramatic development, and no plot whatsoever. I assume that the film makers were so obsessed with the basic concept of mixing fantasy and reality, that they forgot to add a comprehensible and edible story. The "help" given to Aloys for breaking out of his loneliness, went past me and I cannot imagine it offering any escape nor a solid path to achieve that goal.

All in all a pity, as the first half hour is mysteriously promising. After that, the jumps between reality, fantasy and the mix between what could be true and what seems fantasy, make you soon lose interest, particularly as it has no clear effect on the psychology of main characters and their future life. I don't think Aloys will improve his quality of living, and the life and motivation of the woman is unclear to such a degree that I cannot tell what her future looks like either.

Details

Official Sites:

hugofilm [Switzerland] New Europe Film Sales [Poland]

Country:

Switzerland France

Language:

Swiss German

Release Date:

23 September 2016 (UK)

Also Known As:

ALOYS アロイス

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$523

Company Credits

Production Co:

hugofilm, SRF Swiss Radio and Television, SRG - SSR

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1