Another View 2015 / Chrieg / Switzerland 2014
The frustrated adolescents portrayed in this film each have their own reasons for declaring war on the world, and they behave accordingly. A group of four outsiders are placed at a farm in a remote Alpine region from where they are to return to normal life as reformed individuals. Rather than their aggressive behaviour, it’s the relationships that develop between them which present a true testimony of who they really are.
Fifteen-year-old Matteo seems to personify all the possible vices of puberty – he is ignorant, disrespectful, aggressive, bored, he has no positive agenda, and he’s tried both sex and drugs. His dysfunctional family is partly to blame and he is constantly at loggerheads with his father. After one particularly bad spat his parents decide to carry out the threat they made some time previously and allowed to hang over their son. The young man is taken to a remote farm in a bleak mountainous region where cases like his are treated with hard physical labour. Except that nothing is run on the farm as it should be: the tutor in charge is completely out of it, drunk the whole time, allowing his three underage reprobates to do as they please. The severity of the depiction echoes the cruelty of their behaviour towards Matteo, as the teenagers subject him to various harrowing ordeals before accepting him as one of their own. Their emerging friendship ultimately becomes a matter of life and death. During one wild joyride into town Matteo makes a mistake that will change their lives forever.
Zdena Škapová
110 min / Color, DCP
Director Simon Jaquemet
/ Screenplay Simon Jaquemet
/ Dir. of Photography Lorenz Merz
/ Editor Christof Schertenleib
/ Art Director Michael Baumgartner
/ Producer Christian Davi, Thomas Thümena, Christof Neracher
/ Production Hugofilm Productions
/ Coproduction SRF Swiss Radio, TV/SRG SSR
/ Cast Benjamin Lutzke, Ella Rumpf, Ste, Sascha Gisler
/ Sales Picture Tree International
www: www.chrieg.com
Simon Jaquemet (b. 1978, Zurich) grew up on a farm not far from Basel. From 2001 to 2005 he studied film direction at Zurich University of the Arts. He wrote the screenplay for his graduation film, likewise for his subsequent two short films, Block (2007) and Laura’s Party (2009), which were screened at more than thirty festivals. In addition he specialised in the music video genre and several of his pieces received domestic awards. He appeared in the credits as cameraman for a series of video art projects. War is his feature debut.
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