Venue | Meta House |
Hosted By | Meta House |
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4PM: DOCUMENTARY - Liposuction, sunbed sessions, gym visits, waxing appointments, intermittent shots of a pair of slippers stepping onto bathroom scales. Throughout MODELS (1999, 118 min), Ulrich Seidl’s fictionalized spin on a quartet of real-life catalogue models in contemporary Vienna, its four protagonists converse with one another while looking direct into the camera, as if it were placed behind a mirror – such as that found in the bathroom of a night club. Vulnerable yet candid, these girls vie and sustain our attention with a sensitivity and frankness that permeates the film as a whole. The films of Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl – including his recent “Paradise” trilogy – show human behavior in unsparing and explicit close-up. The aim, he says, is for the viewers to see themselves