Film screening Winterschläfer

Director: Tom Tykwer, colour, 124 min., 1997

We are happy to invite you to the next installment of the ArtHouse Cinema program on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. This time we will screen the film called Winterschläfer (Wintersleepers) directed by Tom Tykwer.

Two young couples in snow-covered mountains: René and Laura learn to open up and reveal themselves to one another, while Marco and Rebecca engage in sex to suppress their problems. A fatal accident lurks in the background: the film presenter René went off with ski instructor Marco's car and is partly to blame for the death of an impoverished farmer's daughter.

Tykwer is a director who learned his trade in the cinema itself and not at any film college. With its wealth of assinuations and quotations, Winterschläfer also reveals the director's playful curiosity in relation to his medium: farmer Theo furrowing his food with his fork and creating associations to help his memory is naturally also a reference to Hitchcock's Spellbound; Theo's confrontation with René recalls the topoi of German folk films; and the finale in which Marco seems to fall into a bottomless pit on his skis before Tykwer cuts to Laura's baby is a reference to Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The quotations are not only references, but also quite deliberately employed as moments of irritation.

 
 

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