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Autumn Ball

6.5

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Original title

Sügisball (Autumn Ball)

Year

2007

Running time

123 min.

Country

Estonia

Director

Veiko Õunpuu

Screenwriter

Veiko Õunpuu. Novel: Mati Unt

Cast

Music

Ülo Krigul

Cinematography

Mart Taniel

Producer

Homeless Bob Production, Kuukulgur Film, Tugev Tuul Films

Genre

Drama | Ensemble Film. 1980s

Synopsis

Autumn Ball talks about six inhabitants of Soviet-era tower blocks whose lives touch together, and who are all united by a feeling of loneliness. The young writer, Mati, lurks outside the window of his ex-wife and unsuccessfully approaches other women. August Kask is a bachelor-barber living a drab life who takes to a little girl, but his approaches are misconstrued as paedophilia. The single mom, Laura, watches a sappy soap opera on TV and pushes away men's advances because she cannot trust them. Maurer, the architect, thinks about the wellbeing of humanity, but has forgotten his own wife, who, in turn, looks for solace in the coatroom attendant Theo. Women like Theo, but due to his low social status, they don't take him seriously. Autumn Ball tells a tale of human seclusion and the incapability to reach others. But you also find humor and the absurd, and the properly attuned viewer might even find oneself laughing out loud. If I were to define the film, I would say that Autumn Ball is a pitch black comedy about loneliness, despair and hope.

Awards: 2008: Cinema Jove: Moon of Valencia (Best film)

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Autumn Ball

2007

Veiko Õunpuu

6.5

(142)