10-15-2016, 10:20 PM
Best IDU Film
Title:
About A Souffl?
Plot:
Chronicling a year spent by a young foreign exchange student in Northern Gnejs university town Constance, About A Souffl? is a compelling story about unacquainted love, misapprehension, obsession, and the dangers of bad science fiction novels.
The nameless protagonist ? a sociology student that hides his insecurities behind a transparent veil of cynicism and Nietzsche quotes ? arrives in Constance late at night during a traditional exchange student pub-crawl. Trying to maintain a distanced persona, he simultaneously finds himself annoyingly fascinated by a loudmouthed Sodorian girl, Eliza, while being beset by cockeyed optimist philosophy student Nathaniel and his pseudointellectual theories about 'embracing being'.
Reluctantly swept up in Eliza's and Nathaniel's circle, and his feelings for Eliza growing stronger, the following months has the young man going through an emotional rollercoaster he has trouble to come to terms with.
When Eliza and Nathaniel announce they are in love during a Christmas party at a friend's house, the young man retracts from his friends and his studies and ends up spending hours, days and weeks at the university library reading old science fiction novels. While on the verge of deciding to simply up and leave Constance, he comes across a dusty old book about battling interstellar empires. Within the book, he finds meticulously detailed accounts of a fictional young researcher and his determination to uncover the key to making accurate predictions about human behaviour via advanced statistical methods, and how to use that knowledge to mould the future in his own image.
Armed with his new manifesto and a series of complex calculations, the young man decides to look into his own future, and rewrite it, if needs be. This marks the start of a chain of events that spirals ever downwards, ending with more than one death.
Director:
Jens Brisk
Actors:
Nameless: Jack Berg
Eliza: Anna Naess
Nathaniel: Lukas Berg
Languages spoken:
English (predominantly), Swedish, Norwegian, German
Title:
About A Souffl?
Plot:
Chronicling a year spent by a young foreign exchange student in Northern Gnejs university town Constance, About A Souffl? is a compelling story about unacquainted love, misapprehension, obsession, and the dangers of bad science fiction novels.
The nameless protagonist ? a sociology student that hides his insecurities behind a transparent veil of cynicism and Nietzsche quotes ? arrives in Constance late at night during a traditional exchange student pub-crawl. Trying to maintain a distanced persona, he simultaneously finds himself annoyingly fascinated by a loudmouthed Sodorian girl, Eliza, while being beset by cockeyed optimist philosophy student Nathaniel and his pseudointellectual theories about 'embracing being'.
Reluctantly swept up in Eliza's and Nathaniel's circle, and his feelings for Eliza growing stronger, the following months has the young man going through an emotional rollercoaster he has trouble to come to terms with.
When Eliza and Nathaniel announce they are in love during a Christmas party at a friend's house, the young man retracts from his friends and his studies and ends up spending hours, days and weeks at the university library reading old science fiction novels. While on the verge of deciding to simply up and leave Constance, he comes across a dusty old book about battling interstellar empires. Within the book, he finds meticulously detailed accounts of a fictional young researcher and his determination to uncover the key to making accurate predictions about human behaviour via advanced statistical methods, and how to use that knowledge to mould the future in his own image.
Armed with his new manifesto and a series of complex calculations, the young man decides to look into his own future, and rewrite it, if needs be. This marks the start of a chain of events that spirals ever downwards, ending with more than one death.
Director:
Jens Brisk
Actors:
Nameless: Jack Berg
Eliza: Anna Naess
Nathaniel: Lukas Berg
Languages spoken:
English (predominantly), Swedish, Norwegian, German