Locarno’s First Look Winner Lukas Nathrath Readies for ‘Bourgeois Paranoia’ Next (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMarta Balaga German director Lukas Nathrath has already lined up his next projects, Variety has found out. Following ensemble drama “One Last Evening,” which nabbed him Locarno Film Festival’s Cinegrell First Look Award consisting of post-production service worth €50,000, he will turn to “Bourgeois Paranoia” next.A mixture of dark comedy and psychological thriller, it will be set in the near future, when rents have become unaffordable and the roommate selection process goes off the rails.
Fueled by permanent performance pressure, winning becomes a matter of life and death, states Nathrath.“It may have some genre elements,” he teases.
He will also keep himself busy with “Principle of Failure,” an episodic tragicomedy which will show an aspiring writer who gets caught up in an odyssey of misadventures, white lies and absurd power games with his much more successful cousin.“These two projects, I want to make them on a much bigger scale,” he says, mentioning the latter’s blood-stained climax.
But the concepts of failure and success have been on his mind for a while now, with “One Last Evening” depicting a group of friends getting together for one couple’s farewell party while eyeing each other’s achievements.The film was produced by Klinkerfilm and co-produced by Doppelbauer and Nathrath Filmproduktion.
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