Austria, a country internationally acclaimed for their feel-bad cinema, aims in the completely opposite direction with Die Werkstürmer, writer-director Andreas Schmied's attempt at a feel-good summer comedy hit in the tradition of recent European successes like Welcome to the Sticks or the Swedish Kopps. He takes all he can steal from other films, pandering to just about every cliché one has ever seen in a summer comedy, and ultimately ends up producing a comedy that is not really funny. Even worse, there is not a bit of Austria in a movie that stresses the differences between rural Austria and Vienna, and is described as a piece of national cinema by those who sell it. Miserably Die Werkstürmer is the story of Patrick, who works in...
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- 8/3/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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