Die Geträumten (The dreamed ones), Ruth Beckermann, Austria, 2016, 89’ OV with Spanish Subtitles, DCP
Is it a reading of a literary and intimate correspondence a way of knowledge of the other?, A portrait?, An invocation? Two young actors, Anja Plashchg and Laurence Rupp, meet each other in a Viennese sound studio to read aloud the letters that wrote each other in the postwar Vienne the poetess Ingeborg Bachmann and the poet Paul Celan. Love, impossibility, pain, passion, distance, sorry, company…
More than thirty years of letters that began in 1948, when she was 22 years old and finish in the streets of Paris in 1971 with the tragic deaths of Celan. And as the reading goes ahead, something begins to happen to the actors, something begins to happen to us: life and feelings from then and now end up mixing as if the reading would be the recording of music of nowadays: the reading stops, cigarettes, casual conversations, gazes to the void, goodbyes and reencounters become a subtle film inside another film and embody whatever could have happened in the life of both writers. Therefore, a portrait trough the time. And one of the most suggestive cinematographic aproches to literature.
One of the most suggestive cinematographic aproches to literature.