On these mountains: Review

Michael Krummernacher

Michael Krummenacher, Silvia Wolkan

Vera Bommer, Lucy Wirth

ROTTERDAM - about these mountains (behind this mountains) announces a promising new filmmakers from the Switzerland in 27-year-old Director/co-author Michael Krummenacher. Where it has come to see film school graduation qualified projects, it is much more to those find a expert feature a Director, still in the middle of the study is unusual.

Report according to shot for $20,000 in less than three week-Krummenacher's hometown Schwyz--transcends the image of his bland digital video look by you visual a together with a script, the humor and psychological investigation balances. World premiere here to minimal fanfare, the film is definitely value search by festivals of the emerging talents interested in.

Harking back to Eric Zoncka's long term influential dream life of angels and Jacques Rivette's preference for two female leads, builds a portrait of a friendship between young women, the preservation Krummenacher but perhaps also harmful for both parties.

Brunette Heidi (Vera Bommer) and blonde Milena (Lucy Wirth) are both middle-class city are not satisfied with comfortable monotony of life in your very, but it lacks the dynamics off move. Instead strive for you an apartment together with Heidi, which take a job in a shoe store, while the more academic Milena ponders its future.

The capricious duo have Koketka, only think relations with men, but more time fabricated childish games for their mutual amusement. But when Heidi signs showing their grip on reality, Milena has decide if your friend from the abyss to save, or follow you into.

Not much happens in beyond these mountains, but small-scale events gradually collect, easily create off-kilter world view a picture of the protagonists. Krummenacher's eye for composition is without frills but still impressive, especially when it comes to depth of field field-order of objects, people and landscape in the fleeing positions within the framework.

The dramatic Swiss landscape is ideal for such a technology, with the Alps offers a striking panorama that created, in which the protagonists while the cool move haunting finale for this troubled young character of its own kind of claustrophobia.

A particularly praiseworthy behind-the-scenes composer is Bjorn Magnusson, whose Englisch-Language-Gitarren-Pop-Song "I draw a line" be in a number of occasions, provided mood-enhancing effect.

Venue: International Film Festival Rotterdam (future).
Production companies: Supply film production (in collaboration with the school of television & film, Munich)
Cast: Vera Bommer, Lucy Wirth, Andreas Matti, Stefan Camenzind, Mario Fuchs, Maria Krummenacher-Frank
Director: Michael Krummernacher
Written by: Michael Krummenacher, Silvia Wolkan
Producers: Michael Krummenacher, Peter Baranowski, Judith wealth.
Director of photography: James Wiessner
Music: Björn Magnusson
Publisher: Stine Sun Munch
Sell: Supply, Schwyz, Switzerland
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