Willem Dafoe Movie ‘The Souffleur’ Lands North American Distribution With Kino Lorber (EXCLUSIVE)

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Willem Dafoe Movie 'The Souffleur' Lands North American Distribution

'The Souffleur,' starring Willem Dafoe as an American hotel manager in Vienna, has sold to Kino Lorber for North American distribution.

Variety

‘The Souffleur’ Review: The Manager of a Fading Vienna Hotel Spirals Into Himself in a Bleakly Comedic Satire
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'The Souffleur' Review: Manager of a Fading Vienna Hotel Spirals

Argentine filmmaker Gastón Solnicki finds an eccentric muse in Willem Dafoe, who plays a proud man unwilling to accept the inevitability of progress.

Variety
‘The Souffleur’ Review: Willem Dafoe Is a Hotel Manager Forced Out of His Job in a Poetic, Vienna-Set Character Study

Director Gastón Solnicki also appears in a semi-comic role in this portrait of a man facing unwanted change.

The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Souffleur’ Director Gastón Solnicki Readies for ‘Big-Scale Historical Film’ About His Grandfather the Chess Master Miguel Najdorf (EXCLUSIVE)
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The Souffleur’ Director Gastón Solnicki Sets Next Film

The Souffleur’ Director Gastón Solnicki Readies Big-Scale Historical Film About His Grandfather the Chess Master Miguel Najdorf.

Variety

Argentine Filmmaker Gaston Solnicki’s ‘The Souffleur’ Follows the Storied Hotel and Its Famous Dish, Both on the Brink of Collapse
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https://variety.com/2024/film/global/gaston-solnicki-the-souffleur-1236123114/

'Souffleur' Follows Hotel and Its Fabled Dish on Brink of Collapse

The film tells the story of a fabled hotel that's set to be demolished and whose fate seems etched in stone once its famous souffle fails to rise.

Variety
It's 2019. Vienna, the last bastion among the European cities where smoking in cafe has been allowed, bans smoking indoors. It's the end of an era. Two women, played by Angeliki Papoulia (Dogtooth) and Carmen Chaplin (Granddaughter of Charlie) are looking for a house to buy. One is rich and very picky about her choices and the other, her interior designer is getting frustrated as her suggestions get rejected one after another. After the rich woman finds an apartment, Carmen, the interior designer, travels back to her home in Malaga to visit her aging parents and argue with her sisters about the future of their home and parents. Shot beautifully by Rui Poças (Tabu, Zama, The Ornithologist), A Little Love Package is loosely associated ideas and images with free-flowing narrative. Argentine Gastón Solnicki's experiments w/ much improvisation using actors & their real family, bear interesting results that are both engaging and liberating. #GastónSolnicki #Vienna #Málaga
Nenette et Boni (1996) - Denis
Kékszakállú (2016) - Solnicki
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