"Whisky mit Wodka" ("Whiskey with Vodka")
A German film within a film.
The aging actor, Otto, is increasingly unreliable on set as he has turned to the bottle. The producer decides to challenge Otto by bringing in a talented younger actor and shoot every scene in duplicate -- once with Otto and once with the younger actor.
An intriguing premise that succeeds as a film. A very enjoyable feast of a movie. This is a story about aging, about competition, about loneliness...
I can highly recommend this as a film but it unfortunately lacks a message that is relevant for our jury...
- Press Conference for "Whiskey with Vodka"
"Tutta Colpa di Giuda" ("Freedom")
An Italian film set in a prison in Turin.
An avant-garde theater director stages Christ's Passion as a modern musical and nobody wants to play Judas.
Part reality, part fiction, part documentary (real prisoners are used...), part fable...
On paper this is not a film that I would have thought I'd enjoy as much as I actually did. It was truly unlike any other film I think I've ever seen and a true treat. For this I give it much credit. Not a perfect film by any means but what it does is force one to consider what the meaning of The Passion is and what was the purpose of Christ on earth?
An Italian film set in a prison in Turin.
An avant-garde theater director stages Christ's Passion as a modern musical and nobody wants to play Judas.
Part reality, part fiction, part documentary (real prisoners are used...), part fable...
On paper this is not a film that I would have thought I'd enjoy as much as I actually did. It was truly unlike any other film I think I've ever seen and a true treat. For this I give it much credit. Not a perfect film by any means but what it does is force one to consider what the meaning of The Passion is and what was the purpose of Christ on earth?
A treat...
