Locarno Emerging Director Winner Katharina Huber Breaks Down ‘A Good Place’: ‘Progress Can Sometimes Be Reactionary’
variety.comKatharina Huber’s “A Good Place” (“Ein schöner Ort”) which won on Saturday Locarno’s best emerging director award and best performance (Clara Schwinning) in the Swiss fest’s Filmmakers of the Present, a remote and untimely village sets the scene for an imminent apocalypse but also for an otherworldly fairytale.
Or are these two one and the same? Huber’s first feature opens with an image of a forest fire, foreshadowing the dystopian tone of an elusive audiovisual journey where emotions prevail over rational explanations.
Set to the rhythm of a countdown, this chaptered story sees Margarita (Céline De Gennaro) and Güte (Schwinning) – two women with contrasting personalities, juggle mundane tasks of daily life with disruptive acts of sabotage.
Yet they themselves don’t seem to know what the looming menace is and what they are rebelling against. People keep mysteriously disappearing.
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