I see, I see: Mom, you’re not – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Do not run around, do not call, and despite midsummer day the blinds down. The statements that are their ten year-old twins, the mother, are strictly. Especially it has come from a complicated plastic surgery home, now she insists on absolute tranquility. If one knew not that you sit in an Austrian film, one would guess at the latest at the reaction of the children: One of the boys sat down at the piano and plays in the darkened living room, “Good evening, good night”.

“I see, I see” is the first feature film by the Austrian filmmaker Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the 2012 already in common shooting a documentary about the director Peter Kern. As co-author of the films of her husband Ulrich Seidl (“Dog Day Afternoon,” “Paradise” trilogy) is Franz but long one of the main script writers in German-speaking countries. In “I see, I see” is therefore also no trace of uncertainty debutant incorrect to find, but the story of the sinister mother escalated beeline and most beautifully. At the very beginning and take Franz Fiala a standard of horror genre and pervert him skillfully: Not with the children seems unapproachable Satan Brut to be moved into the family home. The threat comes from the mother (Susanne Wuest). In any case first.

Before her hospitalization she has twins Elijah and Luke (Elias and Lukas Black) recorded on CD a goodnight song, so the two will find lovingly to sleep without them. Upon her return, with a bandage around her face, which only holds holes for eyes, nose and mouth free, the game console is constantly scolded and punished, torn from his hands and given something to drink only one of the twins. Under the duvet, the only place where married yet, according to persuade the boys, they finally ask the question: Is this really our mom

innocent children? But not in Austria

AC mother changeling instead: So can be infantile fear of loss artfully re-evoke. At the same time shy Franz Fiala and not shrink aufzufahren and conventional horror pictures and -erzählmotive. An excerpt from the fifties-ham “The Trapp Family”, in the midst of a crowd of children Leuwerik Ruth sings a lullaby, as a prologue evokes the melodramatic horrors of David Lynch. The family home is a modern stone blocks, which lies both on a secluded lake and a gloomy forest. The aseptic interior of the house resembles the panels of Stanley Kubrick, on the epochal shocker “Shining” not least remind the twins in his aggressive soulless.

However, where the blood-smeared girl penalties for Kubrick only with reproachful looks, keep in Franz Fiala and the boys not long silent – innocent children, where would we be in film-Austria going? And when the family dismantling deceptive idyll can not stop, of course, the Catholic Church has to be affected.

What if possible as the series of genre clichés and self-quotations appear in the list, blends into the brilliant cinematography by Martin Gschlacht (“Amour Fou”, “The Wall”) to a dense network of terror along , The doubling in the title says it all: life and death, flash light and dark shadows are equally present in every picture. And even if Franz Fiala and finally provide some sort rationale for why happened what happened:. The horror of “I see, I see” squared

See here the remains trailer for “I see, I see”

“I see, I see”

Austria 2014

Written and directed by: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala

Cast: Elias Black, Luke Black, Susanne Wuest

production Ulrich Seidl Film Production

rental : Koch Media

Length: 99 Minutes

Certificate: 16 years

From: 9 July 2015