When the provocative Austrian director Ulrich Seidl casts his unblinking, unflinching eye on late-stage capitalism, we’d be wise to take in the sobering view. Ostensibly about the degradation of ...
A tawdry little film ostensibly about the cultural clashes resulting from the proximity of former Soviet states, such as the Ukraine, to western nations such as Austria. By Ray Bennett, The Associated ...
The art of Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl (Import Export) often feels closer to still photography than to cinema. He’ll regularly stage an entire scene in a single, static shot, characters and ...
Wretchedness commutes between the Ukraine and Austria in Ulrich Seidl’s miserable but masterful drama “Import Export.” Helmer’s trademark unrelenting gaze into despair will come as no surprise to ...