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Neil Young, sight & sound
„A new work of deceptive formal complexity and surprising emotional depth from Ludwig Wüst, one of German-speaking Europe's last truly free-spirited and independent filmmakers. It deals with friendship, communication, technology, history and memory - big topics, handled in a sensitive, sometimes humorous, always accessible way. An impressive achievement.”
Inheriting the dogma spirit (sung moon, jeonju Iff)
Two friends, Martin and Anthony, meet after 15 years, share memories and reflect on their present lives...
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Statement Neil Young, Sight & Sound
“Ranks highly among the most distinctive, dryly humorous and memorably atmospheric narrative features from Austria in the current decade. Wüst is a true one-off.“
Serpentines of the soul, der Tagesspiegel
Ludwig Wüst's “Departure“ is defined by reduction: one day, two characters, three locations. It's a road movie of the soul...
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Statement Werkstattkino München, Bernd Brehmer
“With it's emblematic visual language, the film appears like an japanese ink drawing, the minimalistic narrative as a filmed haiku.“
InTERVIEW WITH KARIN SCHIEFER, AFC
“I move around in a picture”. In Ludwig Wüst’s Departure two strangers reach a tacit understanding to journey together for a time, which leads them to a radical turning point...
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Berlinale Programme 2018
Two broken souls meet by chance in the countryside. A man and a woman, neither of them young anymore, both saddled with great disappointments...
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Cries and Whispers. Ludwig Wüst's DEPARTURE towards the last things
In the
beginning, there is a cry, an enduring, angry cry thrust against the flogging
rumbling of a train. It arises from the depths of an irrepressible breast and
plays out as the first powerful tonal apex of Ludwig Wüst's newest film...
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