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Austerlitz (2015)
Directed by Stan Neumann
Documentary, Drama · 1h 30m
“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are, facing your own innermost secrets.” So begins Stan Neumann’s cinematic adaptation of W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel, Austerlitz. The vaulted and majestic space of the railway station in Antwerp is where our journey really starts with actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) addressing the camera directly, and musing on the curious nature of railway stations. This bravura opening is startling, charming, and like the unnamed narrator of the book, you surrender to the proceedings and perambulate alongside Lavant, as he journeys through the great buildings of Europe, faded and shuttered hotels and grand colonnades with broken windows.
Cast
Denis Lavant
Roxane Duran
Viera Pavlíková
Crew
- Director
- Stan Neumann
- Writer
- Stan Neumann
- Novel
- W. G. Sebald
- Director of Photography
- Ned Burgess
- Original Music Composer
- Dominique Pifarély
- Editor
- Louise Decelle
- Producer
- Richard Copans
Details
- Release date
- 2015-05-06
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Czech, French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Les Films d'Ici, ARTE, La Région Île-de-France