Rimini

    Rimini
    2022

    Synopsis

    Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life.

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    Cast

    • Michael ThomasRichie Bravo
    • Tessa GöttlicherDaughter Tessa
    • Hans-Michael RehbergFather
    • Inge MauxEmmi Fleck
    • Claudia MartiniAnnie
    • Georg FriedrichEwald
    • Natalya BaranovaNurse
    • Moumen Abd El RahmanArab friend
    • Silvana SansoniAdmirer
    • Rosa SchmidlAnnie's Mother

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Variety

      This is not, in the end, a tale of hubris brought low, or even of a tacky life staring down a long lens at a tawdry, dwindling death. Instead it’s a chilling parable about the sins of the father becoming the punishments of the son, and about the moral arc of the universe bending, across generations, toward the coldest justice imaginable.
    • 88

      Slant Magazine

      The film fleshes out the perhaps familiar characterizations at its center by tying contemporary wounds to the persistent presence of Europe’s ugly history.
    • 83

      The Film Stage

      Thomas’ Bravo, recalling both Mikey Saber and Mickey Rourke, has a protruding gut, slicked-back hair, an alcohol problem, and some deep-rooted mommy issues. The film is all his.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      Perhaps this one doesn’t take Seidl’s creative career much further down the road to (or away from) perdition, but it is managed with unflinching conviction, a tremendous compositional sense and an amazing flair for discovering extraordinary locations.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      This stands as one of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s better but not quite best features in a pretty consistent career, not as scurrilously seedy as him at his worst, or as merciless, but not as ambitious or startlingly insightful as his best.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      Michael Thomas’ imposing performance will be the hook for a film that, while executed with Seidl’s typical steely control, might strike his followers as being a touch too familiar – while non-adepts will find its darker dimensions altogether too bleak for comfort.