VENICE 2018 Giornate degli Autori
Alexander Kluge • Director
"The film is more related to music than to pictures"
VENICE 2018: We met up with German director Alexander Kluge, who is back at Venice with Happy Lamento, presented as a special event in the Giornate degli Autori
Electric lighting, the circus, the song Blue Moon and street wars between gangs of youths in North Manila intertwine in Happy Lamento [+see also:
trailer
interview: Alexander Kluge
film profile], the breathtaking new film by German director Alexander Kluge, who is back at Venice 50 years after winning the Golden Lion in 1968 with Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed. The movie was presented as a special event in the 15th Giornate degli Autori.