Rockets, sickness, progress and the environment – all uneasy keywords of our present. In Katharina Huber’s “A Good Place” (“Ein schöner Ort”) which won on Saturday Locarno’s best emerging director …
and best performance in the Swiss fest’s Filmmakers of the Present, a remote and untimely village sets the scene for an imminent apocalypse but also for an otherworldly fairytale. Or are these two one and the same?
People keep mysteriously disappearing. An unknown sickness starts sweeping through the village. As if an omen of a terrible disaster, dismembered parts of chicken appear out of nowhere. How are all these related? Or are they related at all? Huber jokes that the over-presence of radio in the film may have come out of her own preference for the medium in terms of staying informed. She listens to a lot of radio for the news. Explaining this preference and briefly touching on the film’s relationship with catastrophic images, the director says, “Images can have such a great influence. There are so many violent and crazy things in the world and I’m sometimes afraid of images.
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