2023-10-31 08:00:22
CULTURE
According to the Viennale, 75,300 people attended Viennale film screenings this year: that corresponds to an occupancy rate of 76 percent. After 13 days, the film festival in the Gartenbaukino comes to an end with the black comedy YANNICK by Quentin Dupieux.
31.10.2023 09.00
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There was a special gala at the 61st edition of the festival: On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the long-time Viennale President Eric Pleskow, his daughter Michelle Abt presented Viennale director Eva Sangiorgi with the Oscar as a gift to the festival that Eric Pleskow received for the film AMADEUS won in 1985.
Organizers are satisfied with visitors
According to the Viennale, 75,300 people attended Viennale film screenings this year. Another 14,000 found their way to the Viennale headquarters to dance to the music of DJs like Lars Eidinger and Rosa Pistola, as well as the presentations and talks by filmmakers like Lisandro Alonso, Catherine Breillat, Jennifer Reeder, Claire Simon, Martha Mechow and Radu listening to Jew.
Viennale film prizes awarded
The film awards of the Viennale 2023, which does not have an official competition, will also be awarded at the closing gala. The Vienna Film Prize is awarded for a current Austrian feature film as well as a special jury prize, the FIPRESCI International Film Critics Prize, the “Standard” Vienna International Audience Prize and the Erste Bank Film Prize.
Best Austrian film:
Sings of WarJuri Rechinsky & Pierre Crom, Ukraine/Austria 2022Special Jury Prize:
EuropaSudabeh Mortezai, Austria/United Kingdom 2023“Standard” Viennale Audience Award:
HokageTsukamoto Shinya, Japan 2023FIPRESCI-Preis:
Smoke Sauna SisterhoodAnna Hints, Estonia/France/Iceland 2023Erste Bank Film Prize:
“The anxious road userMartha Mechow, Austria/Germany 2023
RICKERLAdrian Goiginger, Austria/Germany 2023
Final film with angry theatergoer
The film festival ends with the black comedy YANNICK by Quentin Dupieux. A young man named Yannick attends a tabloid comedy called Le Cocu at the Théâtre Déjazet in Paris. He works as a parking attendant in Melun and took a day off, traveled 45 minutes to Paris and walked another 15 minutes to see the piece.
Frustrated by the mediocre performance, Yannick stands up in the middle of the performance and begins a discussion in his particular dialect with the three actors, who do their best to explain to the troublemaker that the author of the play is not present.
The young man is escorted to the exit, but Yannick comes back with a pistol in his hand and takes everyone present hostage. He sets about fundamentally revising the piece with the actors. Yannick wants to prove that even a parking attendant can write good entertainment.
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