Lourdes

Film Information:
Year:

2009

Lourdes

Países:

   

Director:

Jessica Hausner

Color:

Color

Format:

35 mm

Duration:

99 min

Cast:

  • Sylvie Testud, Bruno Todeschini, Elina Löwensohn, Gerhard Liebmann, Linda Prelog

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Jessica Hausner
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Martin Gschlacht
  • MONTAJE: Karina Ressler
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Martin Gschlacht, Philippe Bober, Susanne Marian

Contact:

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  • www.lourdes-derfilm.at

Synopsis

When Christine arrives in Lourdes on her wheelchair, accompanied by other pilgrims from her village, we’re not sure if her faith is more powerful or whether her conviction is larger than the ones of the other needing people. But when she discovers that her hand is starting to gain some mobility and, perhaps someday she will be able to walk by herself, the rest of her party starts getting suspicious about her. And her flirting with an officer is practically on the brink of what the group considers bearable. There is something surprising and enigmatic about the tone Hausner chooses to construct Lourdes: it sits between a dry suspense and a slight irony, as if that asepsis would be the key to wonder if one can actually film faith, or miracles. But at the same time these decisions seem to be a variation of those she had made in her previous film –Hotel– in which a rarefied atmosphere slowly led to the ‘mystery’ in a barely visible but constant way. It is clear that Hausner’s is not a narrative filmmaker, but rather one who focuses on atmospheres and characters, and whose films are centered around the director’s eye for those details that reveal the world’s unsettling ambiguity.

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