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Rheum

Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema 2021 / Ospalky / Slovak Republic 2021

Libuše and her husband Jaromír have been together for a long time, perhaps too long. It seems their lives have become mired in a vicious circle of enervation, which neither of them wants to admit. The couple might have spent the rest of their days like this were it not for the arrival of a motivational package from an agency called The Sun… A study of life’s declining years as a period in which simple whims become immutable laws, whose infringement is almost physically impossible.

Rheum Rheum

Synopsis

Libuše and her husband Jaromír have been together a long time, perhaps too long. It seems their lives have become mired in a vicious circle of enervation, which neither of them wants to admit. Libuše is fastidious about the housework, she swaps her wigs around and she tries to find out what the various stains are on her laundry, which maybe only she notices. For his part, Jaromír is more attentive to his garden gnomes than to his own wife. It would be difficult to say who lost interest in the other first. The couple might have spent the rest of their days like this were it not for the arrival of a motivational package from an agency called The Sun promising better things. A study of life’s declining years as a period in which simple whims become immutable laws, whose infringement is almost physically impossible.

Anna Kořínek

About the film

27 min / Color, DCP
International premiere

Director Kateřina Hroníková / Screenplay Kristína Žilinčárová, Kateřina Hroníková / Dir. of Photography Adam Mach / Editor Kateřina Hroníková / Art Director Kateřina Hroníková, Kristína Žilinčárová / Producer Erik Kliment / Production FTF VŠMU / Cast Taťjana Medvecká, Jiří Wohanka, Petr Kopsa / Contact Slovenský filmový ústav / Slovak Film Institute

About the director

Kateřina Hroníková

Kateřina Hroníková (1998). Filmography: Ten Coffees, That's Too Much (2017, short doc.), Extraction (2018, short doc.), You Can Walk Down from There (2019, short doc.), Rheum (2021, short).

Contacts

Slovenský filmový ústav / Slovak Film Institute
Grösslingová 32, 811 09, Bratislava
Slovakia
Phone: +421 257 101 503
Fax: +421 252 963 461
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Kateřina Hroníková
Film Director

Erik Kliment
Producer

Kristina Žilinčárová
Screenwriter

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