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The result, WICKED GAMES Rimini Sparta, offers a staggeringly different experience of the narrative(s). It’s far more cerebral, above all a work of ideas. In the film’s first, winter-set movement, the two strands are tightly interwoven, mirroring, complementing each other into a devastatingly bleak vision of lost childhood as a state of mind.
Former star crooner Richie Bravo chases after his faded glory through a wintry Rimini. When his adult daughter suddenly turns up, demanding money, Richie’s world begins to collapse. His younger brother Ewald meanwhile is seeking to make a new beginning in a remote corner of Romania.
Jan 13, 2023 · Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, who faced allegations of on-set impropriety and child exploitation last year, will attend the world premiere of a “new” film, titled “Wicked Games Rimini...
- Leo Barraclough
Sparta is a 2022 drama film directed by Ulrich Seidl. It depicts an Austrian man named Ewald who is a non-offending pedophile and teaches judo to boys in Romania. The film is the second in a diptych; the other film, Rimini, centres on Ewald's brother. [1]
Synopsis. In Rimini (2022) and Sparta (2022), Ulrich Seidl followed the lives of two brothers, Richie and Ewald, respectively. The former is a crooner long past his prime yet still beloved by hordes of late-middle-aged female fans who can also buy his sexual attention; the latter is a technician living in Romania and wrestling with his ...
- Ulrich Seidl
- ARTE, Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion
Jan 31, 2023 · The resulting film, “Wicked Games Rimini Sparta,” had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and is a combined version of his 2022 diptych “Rimini” and “Sparta,” which...
Jun 15, 2023 · Böse Spiele - Rimini Sparta: Directed by Ulrich Seidl. With Georg Friedrich, Tessa Göttlicher, Claudia Martini, Inge Maux. Two Austrian brothers try to find happiness abroad, while their father, who suffers from dementia, makes the same rounds day after day in the old-age home.
