Angela Schanelec

  • Angela Schanelec – Musik AKA Music (2023)

    Drama2021-2030Angela SchanelecArthouseGermany

    A boy grows up with his step-parents in Greece. At the age of 20, he unwittingly murders his father. While serving his sentence, he falls in love and has a child with a woman who works in the prison. They are both unaware of the fact that she is his biological mother. Twenty years later, he lives in London with his daughter and is beginning to lose his eyesight.Read More »

  • Angela Schanelec – Der traumhafte Weg AKA The Dreamed Path (2016) (HD)

    Angela Schanelec2011-2020ArthouseDramaGermany

    Synopsis
    Angela Schanelec’s first feature since 2010 is the much-anticipated Der traumhafte Weg, a serious work that is deliberately constructed image upon image and allows the viewer to read a seemingly realistic, yet artificially created world as it is being experienced, yet ultimately works against any simple narrative comprehension. The best way to tackle Der traumhafte Weg is to proceed, scene by scene, with a description of the shots, of how within the shots the characters are framed, how the characters gaze, how they hold their bodies… In other words, it is an Angela Schanelec film, where attention is required and rewarded, and the characters are at the mercy of the elements of chance.Read More »

  • Angela Schanelec – Mein langsames Leben AKA Passing Summer (2001)

    2001-2010Angela SchanelecArthouseGermany

    Synopsis:
    An attempt to observe life from the outside – to gain distance, to not interfere, to just observe. Two young women sitting in a café on a summer day, a family arriving at the airport, an older woman sitting alone in a train, adult children standing in front of the hospital where their father is dying. Situations found everyday, a thousand times over. But what happens when you try to depict this normality?Read More »

  • Angela Schanelec – Ich bin den Sommer über in Berlin geblieben AKA I stayed in Berlin this summer (1993)

    1991-2000Angela SchanelecArthouseGermany

    Quote:
    Nadine is obsessed by a memory linked to a haunting tune she can no longer sing — until she hears someone else singing and everything falls back into place again. A melancholy observation of two young couples having difficulties trusting one another. They are full of skepticism and searching for a purpose in life.Read More »

  • Angela Schanelec – Ich war zuhause, aber… AKA I Was at Home, But… (2019)

    Drama2011-2020Angela SchanelecGermany

    Variety:
    Film Review: ‘I Was at Home, But…’

    Taking its cue from the punctuation in its title, Angela Schanelec’s latest auteur puzzle is elegant and entirely elliptical.

    Take note of that unfurling ellipsis in the title of “I Was at Home, But…,” for it’s the first of legion in the latest tranquil brainteaser from Berlin School auteur Angela Schanelec. After unaccountably disappearing for a week, a 13-year-old boy’s return home triggers a variety of physical and psychological maladies in the household: that’s the plainest precis possible, but any potted description of this radically opaque family drama is likely to make it sound more straightforward than it is. Read More »

  • Angela Schanelec – Ich war zuhause, aber AKA I Was at Home, But (2019) (HD)

    2011-2020Angela SchanelecArthouseDramaGermany

    Synopsis
    After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.Read More »

  • Angela Schanelec – Plätze in Städten AKA Places in Cities (1998)

    1991-2000Angela SchanelecDramaGermany

    Synopsis
    Mimmi lives with her mother in an apart-ment on the edge of town. They won’t be living together for much longer because Mimmi is about to take her final exams at school and will soon move out. Mimmi’s mother is still young and sometimes wish-es Mimmi didn’t need her so much and yet, at other times, that she needed her more, like before. But Mimmi herself doesn’t say very much and it’s often hard to tell what thoughts preoccupy her. She sees her girlfriend, goes out with her boyfriend; she also has the odd flash-in-the-pan relationship with other men. She is often alone – perhaps just waiting for the time to pass, or for a new life to begin. On a school trip to Paris she meets and sleeps with a young man. When she gets back to Berlin she discovers that she is pregnant. She heads for Paris again where she spends two days trying to find the father of her child. She has no money and doesn’t even know where she can sleep. She begins to daydream – and gets more and more tired.Read More »

  • Angela Schanelec – Orly (2010)

    2001-2010Angela SchanelecDramaGermany


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    SYNOPSIS
    Amidst the impersonal hubbub of Paris’ Orly Airport, strangers meet, secrets are revealed, and sudden intimacies develop in this beautifully observed mosaic of lives in transit.

    REVIEW
    Quote:
    Loosely-linked scenes in the hall of Paris’ Orly airport. A man and a woman, both French but living abroad, meet each other by chance. He has just decided to move back to Paris and she longs to return there. A mother and her almost adult son are going to the funeral of her ex-husband, his father. A young couple is embarking on its first big trip. And a woman reads a letter from the man she has recently left. They are all waiting for their flight.Read More »

  • Angela Schanelec – Der traumhafte Weg (2016)

    2011-2020Angela SchanelecArthouseExperimentalGermany

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    Quote:
    Angela Schanelec’s first feature since 2010 is the much-anticipated Der traumhafte Weg, a serious work that is deliberately constructed image upon image and allows the viewer to read a seemingly realistic, yet artificially created world as it is being experienced, yet ultimately works against any simple narrative comprehension. The best way to tackle Der traumhafte Weg is to proceed, scene by scene, with a description of the shots, of how within the shots the characters are framed, how the characters gaze, how they hold their bodies… In other words, it is an Angela Schanelec film, where attention is required and rewarded, and the characters are at the mercy of the elements of chance.Read More »

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