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Dark Fortune / 21st Berlin & Beyond
TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE AT THE CASTRO THEATRE BOX OFFICE. CASH ONLY PLEASE.
DARK FORTUNE (Finsteres Glück)
Sun., Feb. 5, 2017 12:30 pm
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
North America Premiere
114 mins. Switzerland (2016). DCP Projection. Swiss-German with English subtitles.
Dark Fortune director Stefan Haupt, (Berlin & Beyond alum: What About Love, The Circle) opens up a spectrum of emotion in his sensitive new feature. A family vacation to Alsace. A country drive during a solar eclipse. And in an instant, a childs world is destroyed. Eight-year old Yves (newcomer Noé Ricklin) is the sole survivor of a highway accident that kills his entire family. In a hospital back in Zürich, Yves lapses into a profoundly troubled state: he can neither grieve nor acknowledge his own pain. Child psychologist Eliane (Eleni Haupt, the directors wife), a veteran clinician, refuses to weep over the broken boy: she gives him space, time, care, and company. Though Eliane has family problems of her ownher teenage daughters are constantly at odds with each other and with herthe question of Yves grows ever larger in her life. As Eliane becomes the closest thing Yves has to a friend, a parent, or an assurance that life goes on, she tentatively and temporarily brings him into her own family. But when Yves aunt and grandmother close in, Eliane cannot shake the feeling that they do not have Yves best interests at heartand that the wreck that orphaned him might not have been an accident. Sharply photographed in crisp, autumnal colors by Tobias Dengler, Dark Fortune is shot through with a quiet mystery and awe at the darkness in our hearts and soulsand the light that can eclipse it.
Martin Schwartz
Director: Stefan Haupt
Starring: Eleni Haupt, Noé Ricklin, Elisa Plüss, Chiara Carla Bär, Martin Hug
Screenplay: Stefan Haupt
Cinematography: Tobias Dengler
Editor: Christof Schertenleib
**THIS EVENT HAS A STRICT REFUND POLICY. No refunds will be processed by Brown Paper Tickets more than 12 hours after the time of purchase.**
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LocationCastro Theatre (View)
429 Castro Street @ Market
San Francisco, CA 94114
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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