“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are, facing your own innermost secrets.” So begins Stan Neumann’s cinematic adaptation of W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel, Austerlitz. The vaulted and majestic space of the railway station in Antwerp is where our journey really starts with actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) addressing the camera directly, and musing on the curious nature of railway stations. This bravura opening is startling, charming, and like the unnamed narrator of the book, you surrender to the proceedings and perambulate alongside Lavant, as he journeys through the great buildings of Europe, faded and shuttered hotels and grand colonnades with broken windows.
Stan Neumann
Writer, Director
Denis Lavant
Jacques Austerlitz
Roxane Duran
Marie de Verneuil
Viera Pavlíková
Vera (as Vera Pavlíková)
Dominique Pifarély
Le musicien
Veronika Výprachtická
La vendeuse
Karol Laburda
Le gardien
Les Filles d'Olfa74%
The Class of ‘9271%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Woman77%
Public Speaking70%
Directed by John Ford70%
Lumière et Compagnie63%
Harmontown66%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
And the Oscar Goes To...68%
180° South72%
Audrey71%
The Making of Star Wars70%
Varda par Agnès79%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Looking for Richard68%
Sherman's March67%
Love, Antosha74%
