The bosom friend
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The bosom friend |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Seidl |
| script | Ulrich Seidl |
| production | Erich Lackner |
| music | Walter Andreas Christians |
| camera |
Peter Zeitlinger , Enzo Brandner , Jerzy Palacz, Hans Selikovsky |
| cut | Walter Andreas Christians |
| occupation | |
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The Best Friend is an Austrian documentary by Ulrich Seidl from 1997.
content
The 50-year-old Viennese math teacher René Rupnik is obsessed with feminine curves. He likes to illustrate sine and cosine to his students using sexualized anatomical comparisons. He transfigured the actress Senta Berger as the embodiment of all his ideals. He has already seen her performance in the Burgtheater countless times. The reality looks less rosy for the eccentric, because he has not yet been able to find a partner. That is why he still lives with his aged mother, whom he brings to despair with his obsession with collecting and cleanliness.
background
The bosom friend was produced by the film company Lotus Film on behalf of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and was first broadcast in 1997. He also ran at several festivals, including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam , the Film Festival Rotterdam and Duisburg Film Week . It was first seen on German television on August 3, 1998 in the ORB's program . The film has been distributed on DVD since 2010.
René Rupnik can also be seen in smaller roles in the Seidl films Pictures at an Exhibition and Paradise: Faith .
Reviews
"A strictly and Kubrick-fair framed pearl of film, behind whose supposed laughing content a deep, pure look into human isolation prevails."
“One of the most frequent accusations against the filmmaker Ulrich Seidl is that in his documentary case studies, which are always phenomenological studies of society, he would betray those who confront his camera. He would ridicule her and show her off. The fact is that Seidl does not protect the people he portrays: not from himself and us not from them. Seidl doesn't look away, he doesn't look down, embarrassed, he doesn't hide anything. He consistently avoids that majority behavior that consists in ignoring and cementing the situation. "
Web links
- The bosom friend in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The bosom friend on the website of Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion, accessed on March 30, 2013
- ↑ Der Busenfreund ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the Lotus Film website , accessed March 30, 2013
- ^ The bosom friend in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on March 30, 2013
- ↑ Alamode Film - Ulrich Seidl's bosom friend ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. digitalvd.de, September 12, 2010, accessed March 30, 2013
- ↑ Paul Poet: The bosom friend. Ray Film Magazine, accessed March 30, 2013 .
- ↑ Alexandra Seitz: Radical exposure. berliner-zeitung.de, December 2, 2010, accessed March 30, 2013 .
