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Aug 4, 2023 · Hochhäusler’s ongoing experimentation with genre filmmaking over two decades is defined less by a repetition of sameness (stylistic or otherwise) than by a series of transitions from one film to the next that reflect a restless, curious mind of an auteur who always rejected the facile binary of arthouse-versus-genre (or commercial) filmmaking and instead has consistently advocated for a ...
- Marco Abel
Aug 21, 2024 · Hochhäusler’s seventh feature film, Death Will Come, expands on his specific interest in genre, particularly the classic crime film. The story of a dying gangster trying to put his affairs in order, Death Will Come delves into mysteries both external – who is the murderer, who’s double-crossing whom – and situated in the dark recesses of the human mind.
Feb 27, 2023 · Christoph Hochhäusler’s queer crime drama has electric chemistry to boot, but loses itself in an overly complicated and winding plot. Buried feelings, past mistakes and a thorny, knotty undercover operation come together in Christoph Hochhäusler’s Till the End of the Night, a decidedly downbeat exploration of love and identity.
- Christoph Hochhäusler
Mar 7, 2023 · Christoph Hochhäusler: I don't know if the wall is a symbol. But the obstacle of this wall or the protection it offers naturally enables a certain kind of personal opening up. It's an alienation device, a hindrance that is very present in our day and age. You can make love on Zoom or Skype. I'm interested in that.
Feb 24, 2023 · The City Below [+ see also: film review trailer interview: Christoph Hochhäusler film profile], Christoph Hochhäusler’s previously best-known feature, famously ends on an enigmatic, apocalyptic note: ensconced in a glassy hotel penthouse, a sleazy banking executive and his mistress gaze onto the lower Frankfurt streets, as a flurry of civilians desperately flee something.
- David Katz
Till the End of the Night: Directed by Christoph Hochhäusler. With Timocin Ziegler, Thea Ehre, Michael Sideris, Ioana Iacob. Follows an undercover investigator infiltrating the world of a trans woman who has links to a major drug dealer and with whom he was in love under her former identity.
More. Filipe Furtado ★★★. More muscle than any of the Hochhausler previous movies and almost gleefully unreadable as far as narrative goes. Everyone is disposable under power plays that follow vain individual wishes which plays great against the violence. He stages some strong scenes when going into action mode.
