Summertime: Festival of Festival

This year we will again screen movies of the past twelve months that are especially dear us. In REVANCHE (Austria 2007, August 4 & 8), Götz Spielmann interlaces two opposite worlds: the red-light milieu and the tranquil environs of Vienna. He combines the story of Alex, the gofer of a pimp, with that of a policeman living with his wife and an unfulfilled desire for a child in a tidy homestead in the country. After a bank robbery, during which a friend of Alex, a Ukrainian prostitute is killed by the policeman’s bullet, the film revolves around the themes of guilt and revenge in a convoluted way.