Cornetto in the grass

Crew: Marlene Hauser, Thomas Schubert, Karl Fischer, Harry Lampl, Julian Sark, Alexandra Schmidt, Mona Kospach, Lukas Walcher, Benjamin Hable
Photo credit: Teresa Wagenhofer

An exhilarating tragicomedy that seems to mix disparates: banal with significant, existentialism with comedy – and a not exactly appetizing muffin with beer. Richard, who leads an ordinary life in the village, takes care of his grandpa and a sausage stand on the sports field. Within an evening, his world falters – and he learns that there is also a beginning in every end.

Between a booze-drinking house spider, the demented grandpa, a runaway horse, tiramisu at the sausage stand and the eponymous Cornetto on a football pitch, David Lapuch unfolds an exhilaratingly strange variant of tragicomedy. As the head of a pub on the sports field, the protagonist Richard is one of those film characters who watch their own lives in amazement and touch them. During an eventful evening in the village, he learns that not everything remains as it is and that many things have to wait. A Stamperl! What distinguishes the film alongside the spectacle that also works between the dialogues is its sense for the harmonious connection of only seemingly disparate elements. Banal is mixed with significant, existentialism with comedy and a not exactly appetizing muffin with beer.
(Catalogue Text, ph) – Diagonal 2023