frame[o]ut – UNGEHORSAM
Open-air film festival

Sat 09.08., 20.30h, Courtyard 8, free entry
indoor backup venue: Arena21 

film: LA MORT VIENDRA
D: Christoph Hochhäusler | DE, LU, BE 2024 | Feature Film | 101min. | OV with Subtitles
With: Sophie Verbeeck, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Marc Limpach

A courier is arrested in Luxembourg. Hidden in his car, in the frame of a historical painting: thick bundles of money - silent witnesses to a widely ramified criminal network. In Christoph Hochhäusler's seventh feature film La Mort Viendra, the audience is thrust into this network without warning. At first, there is a sense of disorientation: too many names, too much information, all of which is thrown at us unchecked. But we can trust the experienced director; those who engage with the unusual narrative style are rewarded with moments of intense clarity. There are repeated flashes of scenes that give us pause amidst the chaos of organized crime: an approach in a club that suddenly seems so warm, then another act of violence that literally goes for the throat. We can also take a break with the contract killer Tez, who is supposed to put an end to the person responsible for all the misery. La Mort Viendra is a chilly and stylish Euro-thriller that evokes associations with the cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville. The only difference is that Melville's Lone Wolf is not played here by Alain Delon, but by the fantastic Sophie Verbeeck.

Christoph Hochhäusler recently caused a stir with Until the End of the Night - a film with a double connection to Austria: on the one hand, through the Vienna-based leading actress Thea Ehre, and on the other hand, it was the occasion for the retrospective dedicated to him at Diagonale 2024. With La Mort Viendra, Hochhäusler presents his seventh feature film - and for the first time, he shot it outside of Germany.

Film still © W-Film

In cooperation and co-production with MuseumsQuartier Wien