Antares

Austria, Germany

2004

119 Min

Color

1.85:1

Croatian, English, German

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Wulf Flemming, Erich Lackner

CAST Petra Morzé, Andreas Patton, Hary Prinz, Susanne Wuest, Dennis Cubic, Andreas Kiendl, Martina Zinner, Xenia Ferchner

MUSIC Walter W. Cikan, Marnix Veenenbos

SOUND Bernhard Bamberger

Locarno (Competition), Toronto, Edinburgh

Synopsis

A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same plain Vienna apartment block. A bored nurse with a stable, comfortable family life has a wild but almost-wordless extramarital affair with a fashion-conscious traveling salesman who’s obsessed with sex photos. An unstable young Austrian grocery checker lies to hold on to her philandering Yugoslavian boyfriend, claiming she’s pregnant. Finally, a recent divorcée whose violent ex-husband is a King of Denial intent on getting her back. Will the residents’ fibs and moral failures save or destroy them? Can the women safely express their fears? —IMDb

Director

Götz Spielmann

Born in Wels in 1961, grew up in Vienna. Starts writing and directing while still in school. His first film is aired on television in 1978. In 1980 he starts studying screenwriting and directing at the Vienna Film Academy. Two films completed during his studies receive international prizes and are screened at the Stadtkino, an arthouse cinema in Vienna. Spielmann graduates in 1987. Soon afterwards, he writes and directs four cinema and made-for-TV films in succession.

In 1999, after several years of silence, his next feature film The Stranger (Die Fremde) is Austria’s nomination for the Foreign Language Oscar. This is followed by Spiel im Morgengrauen, a made-for-TV movie, and in 2004 the feature Antares.

Antares is shown internationally at more than 30 festivals, and at arthouse theaters in many countries including France, the USA, and Germany. Antares is nominated by Austria to compete for the Foreign Language Oscar. Its explicit sex… read more

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Mehdi Jahan

27Mar11

This movie dealt some serious blows but failed to deliver a knockout punch the way Gotz Spielmans next feature "Revanche" did. This movie did generate some uncomfortable emotional responses within me. Spielman gives a penetrating insight, weaving a complex tapestry of love, loss, guilt and frustration and creates a moral conundrum of sorts. ps. The car accident linking the characters did bring Amores Perros to mind.