Olümpose modell

Model Olimpia

Genre

Drama

Director

Frédéric Hambalek

Run time

1h 29min

Meticulously crafted, this debut explores the duality of dark desires within an adolescent mind and helicopter parenting of a mother.

A desperate woman (Anna Steffens) has designed a strange plan to help her son. The young man (played by Alban Mondschein) suffers from a destructive fantasy life revolving around death and violence. In order to change these disturbing obsessions, he engages in his mother’s self-devised therapy programme.

Relationship between human beings are distorted here into subject-object relations, opening up a space for reflection on nature vs. nurture topics or mental disease. Venturing into more horrific territory later on, Hambalek explores a mother-son relationship and its dark secrets with aesthetic consequence, candor and courage.

The film will be screened at PÖFF First Feature Competiton Programme.

Christoph Gröner

Genre

Drama

Director

Frédéric Hambalek

Run time

1h 29min

Meticulously crafted, this debut explores the duality of dark desires within an adolescent mind and helicopter parenting of a mother.

A desperate woman (Anna Steffens) has designed a strange plan to help her son. The young man (played by Alban Mondschein) suffers from a destructive fantasy life revolving around death and violence. In order to change these disturbing obsessions, he engages in his mother’s self-devised therapy programme.

Relationship between human beings are distorted here into subject-object relations, opening up a space for reflection on nature vs. nurture topics or mental disease. Venturing into more horrific territory later on, Hambalek explores a mother-son relationship and its dark secrets with aesthetic consequence, candor and courage.

The film will be screened at PÖFF First Feature Competiton Programme.

Christoph Gröner

Info

Rating

(none)

Production year

2019

Global distributor

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Local distributor

Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ

In cinema

11/23/2020