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Rimini (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Rimini' is a 2022 drama film directed by Ulrich Seidl. It depicts Richie Bravo, a once-famous Austrian pop singer who has settled in Italy, as well as his estranged daughter and his retired father. Hans-Michael Rehberg plays the father, in his last film role. The film is the first in a diptych; the other film, 'Sparta', is about Richie's brother, Ewald.
The film premiered in official competition at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2022. It also screened at the 2022 Diagonale, where it won the prizes for Best Feature Film and Best Costume Design.
Cast
* Michael Thomas as Richie Bravo
* Tessa Gttlicher as Tessa
* Hans-Michael Rehberg as Father
* Inge Maux as Emmi Fleck
* Claudia Martini as Annie
* Georg Friedrich as Ewald
Production
The film was shot in Austria, Italy, Romania, and Germany for a total of 85 days over the course of a year from March 2017. The shoot in Rimini was set to take place in November 2017, but was postponed until early 2018 because winter fog did not arrive as anticipated.
Seidl and Veronika Franz wrote the diptych originally as one film, with the two plotlines told in parallel, but they decided to split it into two films in the editing process. Seidl said, "the unifying element here is the search for happiness and the attempt to leave one's past behind. But it catches up with you, that is the bitter or perhaps liberating truth that the protagonists ultimately have to face."
Fritz Ostermayer and Herwig Zamernik wrote Richie Bravo's Schlager songs.
Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88%, based on eight reviews, and an average rating of 7.50/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on six critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
Jessica Kiang of 'Variety' called the film "an uncompromising, coldly provocative drama" and wrote that Thomas gives "such an astoundingly deep-dive performance it barely feels like performance at all".
Peter Bradshaw of 'The Guardian' wrote that the film "is managed with unflinching conviction, a tremendous compositional sense and an amazing flair for discovering extraordinary locations", giving it four out of five stars.
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