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Rimini (2022)
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尤里西·塞德尔 actor: 格奥尔格·弗里德里希 / 克劳迪娅·马丁尼 …
other title: 里米尼 / Wicked Games …
The death of his mother brings Richie Bravo back from his adopted home in Italy to his teenage bedroom in Lower Austria, where Charlton Heston is still flexing his biceps and Winnetou is still alive. With a schnapps in hand and velvety Wurlitzer melodies in the air, he and his “piccolo fratello” bid farewell in the cellar to the parental home. His father is in a nursing home. Pop star Richie makes his money in Rimini. Life-size posters on the walls of his villa tell of a glorious past but the present is a damp squib. Richie claims he is still “con molto amore” – a bit of a squeeze, and squeezing is what it takes to get Richie into his corset and “jacketto”, with which he rhymes “perfetto”, before ardently crooning schmaltzy German songs in staid hotel foyers. Oozing sultry charm, this Austrian gigolo inveigles his way into the minds, bodies and wallets of women of a certain age. Seidl’s new magnum opus is deeply romantic, even sad. No matter how dirty and perverse on the surface, few films capture life’s pathos as this one does. Bookended by Hans-Michael Rehberg’s last appearance on screen, Rimini stars Michael Thomas, who shines in the role of son, father and man. His suffering is as real and as false as his love, and his singing is the lonely soliloquy of a loser.

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Safari (2016)
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other title: 猎人们 / 狩猎天堂(港) …
塞德尔跟拍了一些从德国和奥地利前往纳米比亚进行狩猎旅行的游客,记录下他们从埋伏到射杀动物的全过程。

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Paradise: Hope (2013)
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★ 7.6 10 ratings
尤里西·塞德尔 actor: 梅兰妮·莱尼兹 / 维瑞纳·莱巴约 …
other title: 天堂:希望 / Paradies: Hoffnung …
Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.

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Goodnight Mommy (2014)
Ich seh, Ich seh
★ 7.0 38 ratings
Severin Fiala / 赛佛林·费奥拉 … actor: 伊莱亚斯·施瓦兹 / Elias Schwarz …
other title: 晚安妈咪 / Ich seh, Ich seh …
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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Paradies (2012)
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★ 7.4 19 ratings
尤里西·塞德尔 actor: 玛利亚·霍夫斯塔尔 / 玛格丽特·提塞尔 …
other title: 天堂:爱 / Paradies: Liebe …
On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.