Wednesday | 16. July. 2014

TUESDAY AT KASTEL: TOM AT THE FARM AND AMOUR FOU

Tonight’s International Programme at Kastel starts at 21:30 with a new film by Xavier Dolan. Tom at the Farm follows the protagonist who works as an advertising copywriter. He travels to the country for the funeral of his boyfriend Guillaume. There, he is shocked to learn that no one knows who he is, nor his relationship to the deceased. Guillaume’s brother soon sets the rules of a twisted game. In order to protect the family’s name and the deceased’s grieving mother, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his trip to the farm. The film stars Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy and Evelyne Brochu.

At 23:30 you can watch Amour Fou, a new film by Jessica Hausner. Amour fou is set in Berlin in the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin’s insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich’s subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness. Amour Fou is a romantic comedy based loosely on the suicide of the poet Heinrich von Kleist in 1811. The film stars Birte Schnöink, Christian Friedel, Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller, Holger Handtke, Barbara Schnitzler and Alissa Wilms.