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
Olümpose modell
Model Olimpia
Genre
Drama
Director
Frédéric Hambalek
Run time
1h 29min
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
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