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Director: Bernhard Wenger
2024 / 102min / DCP
Wenger’s acidically funny, consistently unpredictable feature debut is a bittersweet satire starring Albrecht Schuch (All Quiet on the Western Front), in a role taking full advantage of his gift for physical comedy and capacity for pathos. As Matthias, the CEO and public face of Vienna-based rent-a-friend agency My Companion, his commitment to being the perfect professional shapeshifter, malleable to the needs of his clients, begins to take a toll on his relationship with girlfriend Sophia (Julia Franz Richter) and, eventually, his own psychic integrity. A stinging send-up of a hustle-driven contemporary culture that preaches micromanaged self-optimization and the reduction of interpersonal relationships to “emotional labor,” made with a scrupulous eye for the telling detail and an unfaltering sense of compassion.
An Oscilloscope Laboratories release.
Q&A with director Bernhard Wenger and actor Albrecht Schuch moderated by film critic Tomris Laffly on Friday, September 19th
Q&A with director Bernhard Wenger and actor Albrecht Schuch moderated by film critic and curator Murtada Elfadl on Saturday, September 20th and Sunday, September 21st (12:00pm)
Q&A with director Bernhard Wenger and actor Albrecht Schuch moderated by film critic Joey Magidson on Sunday, September 21st (6:45pm)
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