Life guidance

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Movie
Original title Life guidance
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2017
Age rating JMK 14
Rod
Director Ruth Mader
script Ruth Mader,
Martin Leidenfrost
production Gabriele Kranzelbinder
music Manfred Plessl
camera Christine A. Maier
cut Niki Mossböck
occupation

Life Guidance is an Austrian feature film by Ruth Mader from the year 2017 . The premiere took place on September 8, 2017 as part of the 2017 Venice Film Festival , where the film was invited to the section for independent author cinema, Giornate degli Autori . The cinema release took place in Austria on January 12, 2018.

action

The dystopian science fiction film is set in the near future and is about a world of perfected capitalism . Society is supported by a large majority of happy and motivated top performers who feel happy and self-realized. While the so-called minimum recipients are kept quiet in dormitory castles , the agency Life Guidance was set up for the minority of the unfortunate service providers . This should also make them ideal people.

Alexander works in the financial sector and represents the service provider company. He works in it, but senses that something is wrong. For example, one wrong sentence about your child is enough to activate Life Guidance . A Life Guidance agent directs him to become optimal. Alexander's father lives in a nursing home. He cannot cope with the system, but he cannot do anything about it. Alexander's child has already completely internalized the new system. When one day the child sees his father crying, he says to him: "Dad, that is not optimal." Alexander begins to rebel against the system.

production

One of the locations: the WU campus

The shooting took place from September to November 2016, and the shooting took place in Lower Austria , Vienna and Africa. One of the locations was the WU campus . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , Filmstandort Austria and the State of Lower Austria , ORF was involved . The film was produced by KGP - Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production . Renate Martin and Andreas Donhauser were responsible for the production design, Tanja Hausner for the costume design and Heinz Ebner for the sound. The film is Mader's second feature film after Struggle (2003).

reception

Andrey Arnold described the film in the daily newspaper Die Presse as a glossy version of hidden reserves from 2016. Life Guidance would accuse people of creeping incapacitation with cold emphasis and show how self-determination is slipping away from them. Nevertheless, the film would not succeed in really disturbing, it would lack unusual, powerful and shocking images.

The Tiroler Tageszeitung found that the film would shine despite recognizable dramaturgical weaknesses in the script with "an atmospheric Kafkaesque mood, cool retro-futuristic design and a wonderfully absurd cameo by gun lobbyist Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly ."

Matthias Greuling said in the Wiener Zeitung that many ideas from George Orwell's 1984 would resonate, at the same time Ruth Mader would create a highly elegant thriller that doesn't have to fear for its originality. The film would think the glass people and bubbles of perception with optimized content to excess and therefore pass as a terrifyingly obvious dystopia. He also expressly praised the “masterful photography by camerawoman Christine A. Maier ”.

On orf.at, Simon Hadler describes Life Guidance as a small masterpiece that stands out " through the atmospheric density, the brilliant performance of the superbly cast team of actors around Fritz Karl, through the calm imagery, the monotonous and driving rhythm and everyone involved has a keen sense of timing " developed. There is also praise for the author Martin Leidenfrost , "one of the brightest minds in the country with an unerring instinct for good stories."

Awards and nominations

Transsilvania International Film Festival 2018 ( Cluj-Napoca )

Thomas Pluch Script Award 2018

  • Nomination for the main prize and the special prize

Diagonal 2018

Austrian Film Award 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Life Guidance . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ^ "Count Ali" with a film role and new love at the Lido . Article dated September 10, 2017, accessed September 10, 2017.
  3. ^ A b Salzburger Nachrichten: Venice Film Festival: Ruth Maders invited with "Life Guidance" . Article dated July 25, 2017, accessed July 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ filmfonds-wien.at: Life Guidance . Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b diepresse.com: "Life Guidance": incapacitation by agency . Article dated September 9, 2017, accessed September 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ KGp - kranzelbinder gabriele production gmbh - Life Guidance . Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ Life Guidance. In: Austrian Film Institute . Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  8. ^ Vienna Film Fund: Life Guidance . Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  9. ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung: "Life Guidance": Lonely rebellion against brown men . Article from January 11, 2018, accessed on March 8, 2020.
  10. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Film review: Trapped for a whole life . Article from January 11, 2018, accessed on January 11, 2018.
  11. ↑ In the realm of the Viennese feschists . In: news.ORF.at . January 11, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed January 18, 2018]).
  12. ^ FIPRESCI Prize to Life Guidance
  13. ↑ Thomas Pluch Script Award 2018: Nominations / Jury / Award Ceremony . Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  14. ↑ orf.at: "Murer" and Geyrhalter-Doku get main prizes ( Memento from March 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated March 17, 2018, accessed March 17, 2018.
  15. ↑ Austrian Film Prize 2019: Nominations . Retrieved December 6, 2018.