Bouncing between feature films (“My Joy“) and documentaries (“Maidan,” “The Event“), director Sergei Loznitsa has carved out a niche of patient pictures, that sometimes take more than few moments to reveal themselves. And his work has attracted a loyal following on the international arthouse circuit where he’ll return again this fall with his latest documentary, “Austerlitz.”
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Set to debut at the Venice Film Festival, before heading to the Toronto International Film Festival for its stateside bow, the film sees Loznitsa tackling the strange dichotomy of former concentration camps becoming tourist attractions. “One of the biggest mysteries of such places is the motive that induces thousands of people to spend their summer weekends in former concentration camps looking at ovens in a crematorium. To try to come to grips with this, I made this film,” the director explained in a statement about the picture.
It will certainly be intriguing to see how he plays with this kind of subject matter, and the first trailer promises something that will perhaps be quite stirring.
