Goodnight Mommy
Ich seh, Ich seh
Veronika Franz et Severin Fiala
In the heat of the summer, in an isolated house in the countryside between woods and corn fields, ten-year-old twins wait for their mother. When she comes back, her head wrapped in bandages after plastic surgery, nothing is as it was before. Stern and distant now, she shuts the family off from the outside world. Starting to doubt that this woman is actually their mother, the boys are determined to find the truth by any means.
With : Susanne Wuest, Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz
Screenplay : Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Image : Martin Gschlacht
Editing : Michael Palm
Sound : Klaus Kellerman
Music : Olga Neuwirth
Screenplay : Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Image : Martin Gschlacht
Editing : Michael Palm
Sound : Klaus Kellerman
Music : Olga Neuwirth
Production : Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion
Distribution: KMBO/Luminor, Eloise Martin, Email : contact@luminor.fr
Distribution: KMBO/Luminor, Eloise Martin, Email : contact@luminor.fr
Former film journalist, former assistant director, former casting director, Veronika Franz has collaborated both as a co-scriptwriter, and artistic collaborator on all of Ulrich Seidl's films since The Bosom Friend (1997).
Severin Fiala has been watching, writing and making films since the age of 11. In 2010, the Premiers Plan film festival screened his graduation film Elefantenhaut (Elephant Skin), co-directed with Ulrike Putzer at the Cinema department of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He co-directed with Veronika Franz the feature documentary Kern (2012) about the legendary Austrian hyphenate Peter Kern. Goodnight Mommy is their first full-length fiction film.
"A horror film? An author film? Our film Ich seh Ich seh is meant to be both. We love physical cinema – cinema that overpowers you. But at the same time, with our story we are trying to ask questions that for us are existential. Questions that deal with life realities, questions about education and the balance of power in families, identity and above all about the monstrous within people. We wanted to make a film that says something about our lives — and that at the same time chills us to the bones."
Severin Fiala has been watching, writing and making films since the age of 11. In 2010, the Premiers Plan film festival screened his graduation film Elefantenhaut (Elephant Skin), co-directed with Ulrike Putzer at the Cinema department of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He co-directed with Veronika Franz the feature documentary Kern (2012) about the legendary Austrian hyphenate Peter Kern. Goodnight Mommy is their first full-length fiction film.
"A horror film? An author film? Our film Ich seh Ich seh is meant to be both. We love physical cinema – cinema that overpowers you. But at the same time, with our story we are trying to ask questions that for us are existential. Questions that deal with life realities, questions about education and the balance of power in families, identity and above all about the monstrous within people. We wanted to make a film that says something about our lives — and that at the same time chills us to the bones."