Tag: Veronika Franz
The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad) | Review
Agnes of God: Franz & Fiala’s Bleak Portrait of Women & Madness
“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” wrote...
2024 European Film Awards: Audiard, Guiraudie, Fargeat, Gomes & Rasoulof Among First Selections
The 2024 Fiction Feature Film selections are in and we have twenty-nine film titles as part of the first wave of eligible Euro items....
Moon | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Bitter Moon: Ayub Concocts a Taut Domestic Thriller
“It takes time for a bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath
It's entirely possible that Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala would have waited it out for another Park City showing - Sundance launched...
Rimini | Review
Bravo New World: Seidl Returns with Desolate Portrait of Fallen Hustler
There’s always a healthy thread of humor lurking under the despair of Ulrich Seidl’s...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #31. Ulrich Seidl’s Böse Spiele
Böse Spiele (Wicked Games)
With filming taking place in portions between April 2017 to May 2018, it's been a painstakingly long post-production process for Austrian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #8. Ulrich Seidl’s Böse Spiele
Böse Spiele
Produced by Philippe Bober, Elisabetta Pilia, Ulrich Seidl
Directed by Ulrich Seidl
Written by Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl
Starring: Michael Thomas, Georg Friedrich, Hans Michael...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #11. Wicked Games – Ulrich Seidl
Böse Spiele
A project which has been developing for the past several years, it would appear 2020 is finally the year in which Ulrich Seidl’s...
Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Lodge | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Returning with their heavily anticipated sophomore feature, and English language debut, filmed outside of Montreal almost one year back, Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala's...
The Lodge | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review
You Gotta Have Faith: Severin & Fiala Mine Familial Madness in Warped Psychodrama
Reexamining similar themes of the inherent madness of isolation and the potential...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Like many of the fourth quarter 2018 film festival circuit venues (Toronto, Venice, AFI), Sundance 2019 benefits from an overstuffed foreign film market, taking...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #24. Wicked Games (Böse Spiele) – Ulrich Seidl
Wicked Games
Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl returns to his first piece of narrative filmmaking since the unspooling of his phenomenal Paradise Trilogy six years ago...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #48. The Lodge – Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala
The Lodge
Art-house commodities after their stylish 2014 debut Goodnight Mommy (read review), co-directors Veronika Franz (wife of Ulrich Seidl) and Severin Fiala scored their English...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #51. Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Lodge
They broke out big when Venice, TIFF and Sitges handed them invites for their 2014 horror film Goodnight Mommy (read review) and Veronika Franz and Severin...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #23. Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Lodge
The Lodge
Austrian Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala broke out big with Goodnight Mommy (in his 4-star review our Nicholas Bell claimed this to be...
Goodnight Mommy | Blu-ray Review
Distributor TWC-Radius managed a difficult feat with an inspired marketing campaign for the release of foreign arthouse horror film Goodnight Mommy, the excellent directorial...
Goodnight Mommy | Review
Mom Without a Face: Fiala/Franz’s Fiction Debut a Mesmerizing Slice of Psychological Horror
Once you’re made aware that Goodnight Mommy is the fictional directorial debut...
2014 TIFF: Fabrice Du Welz’s Alleluia & Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy Top Vanguard Programme
While a certain "freshness" might be lacking in the Midnight Madness programme, the Vanguard section (and Wavelengths to be unveiled next month) is where...
71st Venice Film Fest: Hong Sang-soo, Duane Hopkins & the Safdies Pack Horizons Section
The Venice Film Festival's Horizons section (aka Orizzonti) is logically comparable to Cannes' Un Certain Regard section. As well as including about a dozen shorts...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #17. Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Hope
Paradise: Hope
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer(s): Seidl & Veronika Franz
Producers: Seidl, Christine Ruppert, Philippe Bober
U.S. Distributor: Strand Releasing
Cast: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael...
