Lucky (2019)

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Movie
Original title Lucky
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 97 minutes
Rod
Director Peter Payer
script Peter Payer
production Mathias Forberg ,
Viktoria Salcher
music Wolfgang Frisch ,
Markus Kienzl
camera Andreas Berger
cut Cordula Werner
occupation

Lucky was an Austrian feature film by Peter Payer from 2019 with Philipp Hochmair , Larissa Fuchs and Julia Roy in the leading roles. The screenplay is based on the novel The Polykrates Syndrome (2014) by Antonio Fian . The premiere was on December 10, 2019 at the Gartenbaukino in Vienna , the Austrian theatrical release took place on December 20, 2019. At the Five Lakes Film Festival , lucky will be shown on August 26, 2020 as the opening film.

action

Artur is a trained teacher and talented draftsman in his late 30s without much ambition. He works in a copy shop, gives tutoring and actually has a happy marriage with the teacher Rita, who is much more ambitious and therefore on the way to becoming the headmaster. Leisure and married life have become routine, Artur prefers to shuffle through his apartment in pajamas and slippers.

The cosiness in Arthur's life ends when the young and attractive Alice steps into the copy shop and thus into Arthur's life and turns his life upside down. Artur starts a secret affair with Alice, which is accompanied by a number of problems. Alice makes her way into Arthur's life, sneaking into his mother, his best friend and even his wife. Finally she tells him that he is pregnant too.

production

The shooting took place from December 4, 2018 to January 26, 2019 in Vienna . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and Filmstandort Austria ; Austrian Broadcasting was involved . The film was produced by Prisma Film .

Gregor Kienel and Veronika Hlawatsch were responsible for the sound and sound design, Christine Ludwig for the costume design, Conrad Moritz Reinhardt and Anna Seidl for the production design and Evgenia Popova and Danijela Brdar for the mask.

The film is the sixth work by Peter Payer for the cinema and after an investigation into girls (1999) based on the novel by Albert Drach , Villa Henriette (2004) based on the children's book by Christine Nöstlinger and acquitted (2007) based on the play The Youngest Day by Ödön von Horváth his fourth literary film adaptation.

reception

Franco Schedl found on film.at that Peter Payer's Fian film adaptation offered an interesting mix of styles with playful actors, which was fun and contained everything from romance to horror. Viewers should be prepared for a number of unpredictable twists and turns. Because what begins as a relatively harmless banter by a bored husband develops more and more into a crime thriller and psychological thriller that even has horror elements. The narrative tone would remain mostly comedic. Another strength of the story would be that amazing repetitions and reflective effects occur over and over again, which could cast doubt on the reality of what has happened.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Austrian Film Institute: lucky . Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Contest: Premiere tickets for "lucky". November 29, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Film festival starts with Austrian comedy. In: sueddeutsche.de. August 11, 2020, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Lucky with crew united . Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  6. ^ Franco Schedl: "Lucky": When luck gets really scary. In: film.at . December 18, 2019, accessed December 18, 2019 .