| Antares | 
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Sales Rank: 40999
Category: DVD
Actors: Petra Morza, Andreas Patton, Hary Prinz, Susanne Wuest, Dennis Cubic
Director: Gatz Spielmann
Publisher: Film Movement
Studio: Film Movement
Manufacturer: Film Movement
Label: Film Movement
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Subtitled
Languages: German (Original Language), German (Unknown), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 119 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DFM63622D
UPC: 616892636229
EAN: 0616892636229
ASIN: B0007TZHWA
Publication Date: 2005
Release Date: May 23, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Product Description
Antares is the March selection in the Film Movement Series. Austrias Oscar selection for Best Foreign Film, Antares skillfully interweaves the stories of three couples at crossroads over three momentous days. Set in a ubiquitous, concrete high-rise apartment complex on the outskirts of a big city, the couples emerge from this uniform coexistence to search for love, closeness and some form of happiness. Alex and Nicole are divorced, but Alex cannot let go of what has passed. Sonja is becoming wildly jealous of her husband Marco. Eva, a loyal wife and mother, has turned her life upside down. Antares features explicit sexual content and mature themes in its portrayal of these modern relationships.
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 A new reality May 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great movie for voyeurs. I gave this movie four stars; for its originality, its amazing subtleness in story continuity, which at times gave you the feeling of watching a superposed image in a reality show and the unpretentious, yet very professional work of these talented group of actors. With directors such as: Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl and Gotz Spielman Austria is ceirtainly becoming a leader in avant garde cinema for the 21st century.
 austrian angst January 29, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Antares is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, but everyone in this film flames out into darkness. As I watched the lives of three dysfunctional couples deconstruct, my mind wandered to the wisdom of the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria: "Be kind to all, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." All three couples are trapped in the same drab high rise apartments that serve as metaphors for their interior landscapes. The bored nurse Eva has an affair with an out of town doctor, but despite their torrid love affair she does not even remember the man's last name; nor do we ever learn her husband's name. The young and needy checkout clerk Sonja fakes a pregnancy to persuade her cheating boyfriend Marco to marry her. He's an immigrant laborer from Yugoslavia, injecting not only class-consciousness but ethnicity and immigration into the film. Despite her efforts to free herself, domestic violence traps Nicole with the jealous and abusive Alex, the third couple. In twists of fate that are more bizarre than important to the plot, the lives of these six people crash and collide, but only as ships passing in the night. Austrian angst buries everyone. In German with English subtitles.
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