International Filmfestival PALIC 06 - BEST DIRECTOR
Thomas Pluch Script Award 2006 for SLUMMING
The prestigious Austrian Script Award has been assigned to SLUMMING during the DIAGONALE 2006 in Graz.
www.diagonale.at
SLUMMING at TORONTO International Film Festival
SCREENINGS
09/07/06 - 08:45 PM - Varsity 3 |
09/08/06 - 02:45 PM - Paramount 4
SLUMMING in THEATRES
SLUMMING will be released in Austria in mid-november 2006 |
www.filmladen.at
INTERNATIONAL RELEASES
International Premiere:
BERLINALE - Competition
09.02.- 19.02.2006
North-American Premiere:
TORONTO International Film Festival
07.09. - 16.09.2006
SLUMMING at international festivals
SEATTLE
25.05. -18.06.06
KARLOVY VARY
30.06.-08.07.2006
JERUSALEM
06.07. - 15.07.2006
YERIVAN
10.07.-15.07.2006
PALIC
15.07. - 21.07.06
MOTOVUN
24.07. - 28.07.06
MELBOURNE
26.07. - 13.08.2006
BRISBANE
02.08. - 14.08.06
RIGA
16.09. - 24.09.06
VANCOUVER
28.09. - 13.10.06
REYKJAVIK
28.09. - 08.10.06
CHICAGO
05.10. - 19.10.06
WARSCHAU
06.10. - 15.10.06
GHENT IFF COMPETITION
10.10. - 21.10.06
LONDON IFF
18.10. - 02.11.06
SAO PAULO
20.10. - 02.11.06
GIJON
23.11. - 01.12.06
GÖTEBORG
26.01. - 05.02.07
Thomas Pluch Script Award 2006 for SLUMMING
The prestigious Austrian Script Award has been assigned to SLUMMING during the DIAGONALE 2006 in Graz. www.diagonale.at
INTERNATIONAL PRESS:
A malicious young man of privilege plays a ghastly practical joke that results in a troubled alcoholic finding a kind of redemption in well-thesped, narratively ambitious drama SLUMMING... A provocative, finely crafted pic... A fascination with the grim comedy of marginalized society... Looking like a young Christopher Walken and Chrissie Hynde respectively, August Diehl and Pia Hierzegger communicate their malaise with dignity, while Michael Ostrowski serves well as the initial voice of conscience. But it is Paulus Manker who earns hazard pay as the hapless Kallmann, finding strength to turn his life around with the help of some waterlogged garden gnomes and Czech farmers in pic's most affecting sequences.
Eddie Cockrell, VARIETY
Intriguingly watchable oddity… Michael Glawogger's SLUMMING has something of Hans
Weingartner's THE EDUKATORS about it, and something of Mike Leigh's NAKED: it's about blind existential rage, arrogant male ennui and what happens when schoolboy pranks turn nasty… Glawogger has generally good instincts, getting away with tonal shifts from burlesque to poetic symbolism to hard-edged romance.
Lee Marshall, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
SLUMMING has odd moments of wry, dark humor… A collection of unraveled story lines, offputting characters… Production values are solid as the film provides a glimpse of Vienna that makes the film intriguing…
Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Directed with intelligent whimsy and a great deal of style…
Peter Brunette, INDIEWIRE
Somewhat reminiscent structurally of a stream-lined MAGNOLIA, but far, far darker... Despite an ending that dissolves rather than resolves, I was swept along...
David Hudson, GREEN CINE
SLUMMING is hard on the outside, soft on the inside, with a generous dose of humor into the bargain… Essentially realistic but slightly surreal world…
Ekkehard Knörer, SIGN AND SIGHT
An excellent performance by August Diehl, who, with his devilish grin, knows how to retain a certain sympathy despite playing an essentially soulless and nasty character.
Boyd Van Hoeij, EUROPEAN-FILMS.NET
Combines elements of gritty realism with magically surreal scenes, and human misery with wicked humor…
AFP (France)
The tandem of smooth and sadistic young people, parralel intrigues, cutting humor and
situational harshness… Michael Glawogger has curiosity and welcome flexibility…
Julien Welter, ARTE (France)