Sparta (2022)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 101 minuten / 205 minuten ('Böse Spiele - Rimini Sparta')
Country:
Austria / Germany / France
Directed by: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Georg Friedrich, Hans-Michael Rehberg and Florentina Elena Pop
IMDb score:
6,7 (1.109)
Releasedate: 24 March 2023
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Sparta plot
Ewald, brother of Richie Bravo from 'Rimini', moved to Romania years ago. Now in his 40s, he wants to start with a clean slate. He leaves his girlfriend and heads inland. Together with some boys, he transforms a dilapidated school building into a stronghold. While the children enjoy a carefree existence, the villagers don't trust the business. Ewald will be confronted with a hard truth.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
After the death of his demented father [Hans-Michael Riberg], who in his last days imagined himself back in the German army during World War II, Ewald [Georg Friedrich] searches for a substitute for fatherly love and tries to give shape to his own masculinity. Although the Austrian Ewald does not speak a word of Romanian, he is renovating an old school building in Romania where he starts 'Sparta': a “training center” where he gives underage boys his own version of Spartan training. When he projects photos of Octavian [Octavian-Nicolae Cocis] onto his television, it becomes an uncomfortable experience. But Seidl eventually does nothing with that fact, causing it to ripple around adrift. No wonder, because the same was the case with Rimini, the first part of this diptych, in which Ewald's brother is central.
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Fisico
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We are used to something more from Seidl. Especially on a visual level, in his older films he has a knack for bringing out the ugliness (visual and psychological) of things that people experience every day. Often sexually explicit matters. Here too, but visually less explicit.
You immediately sense that there is something morally wrong with Ewald. He organizes Spartan training camps tailored to children and invites the underage neighborhood. What seems innocent is immediately covered with a bitter feeling. We can safely speak of a pedophilic disorder without committing pedosexual acts.
Where there is a touch of voyeurism, schadenfreude or humor in Seidl's other films, this is absent here. The film also has little to do with Rimini, so it can perfectly be seen separately. That pseudo link isn't even relevant and is just confusing if you haven't seen either.
And yet I am left with a strange feeling. Pedophilia is not the same as pedosexuality. And if you look at the violent fathers of some boys, you know that things are not right there either, although the latter is viewed differently from a moral-legal perspective.
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scorsese
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- 13237 messages
- 11128 votes
Excellent film about a man who converts a dilapidated school into a judo school for boys. A daring film about a difficult subject such as pedosexuality. Like most Ulrich Seidl films, this one is dreary and uncomfortable. A fascinating main character (although I would have liked to see the leaving of his girlfriend a bit better substantiated). A small 4.0 stars.
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