Another View 2019 / Lillian / Austria 2019
After missing her chance to leave the United States in the proper manner, Lillian decides to return to her native Russia on foot – from New York, across the entire continent. This remarkable observational piece, which lulls the audience like a slowly advancing horizon, dispenses with the usual dramatic approaches in order to sketch a pilgrimage across the vast landscape. And the mere absence of society’s watchful eye can lead to happiness.
This investigation of a person’s absolute liberation – unexpected despite coming on so slowly – might have ended with a shot of the iconic New York skyline. But that's how worldly-wise Austrian documentarist Andreas Horvath symbolically opens his feature debut. After missing her chance to leave the United States in the proper manner, and after desperate attempts at landing even the most demeaning of jobs, Lillian decides to return to her native Russia on foot – across the entire continent, from east to west. This remarkable observational piece, which lulls the audience like a slowly advancing horizon, dispenses with the usual dramatic approaches in order to sketch a pilgrimage across the vast landscape. And the mere absence of society’s watchful eye can lead to happiness.
Martin Horyna
128 min / Color, DCP
Director Andreas Horvath
/ Screenplay Andreas Horvath
/ Dir. of Photography Andreas Horvath, Sonja Aufderklamm
/ Music Andreas Horvath
/ Editor Michael Palm, Andreas Horvath
/ Art Director Louis Oellerer
/ Producer Ulrich Seidl
/ Production Ulrich Seidl FilmProduktion
/ Cast Patrycja Płanik
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Andreas Horvath (b. 1968, Salzburg, Austria). Selected filmography: This Ain’t No Heartland (2004, doc.), Views of a Retired Night Porter (2006, short doc., Best Documentary Film Under 30 Minutes at the 41st KVIFF), Arab Attraction (2010, doc.), Earth’s Golden Playground (2013, doc.), Helmut Berger, Actor (2015, doc.), Lillian (2019)
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