| Kino Lorber Films | Release Date: August 31, 2012 |
Starring:
Georg Friedrich, Gerhard Liebmann, Karin Lischka, Thomas Schubert
Summary:
Breathing is the portrait of an incarcerated teenager attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue. Raised from birth in institutions, he is initially impassive and self-sabotaging in his behavior; soon, though, he begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead, and starts to come to terms with his own youthful crime. (Kino Lorber)
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Aug 28, 2012
The Guardian
Aug 28, 2012
The "breathing" of the title becomes a cleverly recurrent motif, and Markovics's script circles around the themes of death and life in thoughtful and elegant ways: it is a well-carpentered screenplay which bears every sign of having been a labour of love, worked on fruitfully over many years.
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Empire
Aug 28, 2012
Aug 30, 2012
As a collaboration Breathing owes much to the balanced compositions, lucid imagery and judicious use of color executed by Mr. Gschlacht, who brought a similarly clear gaze to morally fraught work by other Austrian directors (Götz Spielmann's "Revanche," Jessica Hausner's "Lourdes," Michael Glawogger's "Slumming").
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