Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, whose latest feature “Rimini” plays in the main competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is winding down production on his next film, Variety can reveal. “Sp…
“Sparta” is a companion piece to Seidl’s competition entry and revolves around the brother of that film’s protagonist, the washed-up singer Richie Bravo. “[‘Rimini’] actually originated as a much larger story,” the director told. “This original story that I started writing was about the two brothers and their father.” Though Seidl wouldn’t share further details about the plot of “Sparta,” he noted that “both protagonists are caught up by their past.
As in previous features, Seidl doesn’t shy away from the physical reality of his performers; the camera lingers on bodies of all ages, shapes and sizes. “I think that this image of a certain type of beauty is imposed on us, and it’s a type of beauty that is impossible for us to escape from,” he says. “In my films I’m trying to avoid that dictatorship of a certain kind of beauty. I want to depict bodies as they are.
“Rimini” is perhaps softer around the edges, approaching its hangdog star with tenderness, pathos and sympathy. In spite of the film’s wintry surface, Seidl insists there is a warm heart beating just below.
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