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Luzifer (Virtual)

From Sunday, October 30th, 2022 to Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
Details
Austria | 2022 | Fiction | 103 min  | German w/ subtitles
Category
2022 VT International Film Festival
Film Type
Fiction
Cost
$12; Student w/ID $6; Virtual: $12 per household; Free for Pass holders

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Director
Peter Brunner
Source
Film Republic
Sponsors
05401

Also showing in-theater Oct 29

Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in the U.S.

Despite its heavily connotative title, Luzifer is not a horror film, at least not in the usual way of jump scares and gore. But a sense of menace does pervade the story from beginning to end. A mother and her neurodivergent adult son, embodied with feral abandon by Susanne Jensen and Franz Rogowski, have forsaken society for a remote existence in the Austrian Alps, where they practice a form of religious fanaticism grounded in self-denial and kinship with nature. One day, a drone appears, disturbing their fragile solitude with its mechanized whirring. As these robotic whirlybirds crisscross the sky surveying the land for ski resort development, the mother and son find themselves in a desperate struggle to maintain their life of austerity and seclusion. ~TW