Documentary
GOOD LIFE DEAL
Samira Ghahremani, Austria 2022, 73’
Filmfestival Max Ophülspreis Bester Dokumentarfilm 2023
"Goodbye forever." he says as he leaves the apartment. Gerhard is an early retiree, a mysterious illness affects his mobility. He sells the apartment in Vienna, moves to Chiang Mai, to his girlfriend Amy, a cab driver. He lives there with her and her family, the money left over from the dissolved existence is to finance a house. Amy opens a store for silverware. Maybe the doctors in Thailand will find a way to heal. A good life, in the second act. That could be the deal. (...)
(...) "There are many truths," Gerhard says at one point in the beginning, when his and Amy's narration of the history of their relationship don't quite line up. GOOD LIFE DEAL portrays his, while leaving a gap - which is no small documentary art - in the knowledge that there are others. (Sebastian Markt)
“What also makes the film so special is that it doesn't judge, that it doesn't name a victim or a perpetrator.” (Irene Hetzenauer)
Read the whole film review on Uncut
Premiere: April 2022 Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films
