Sunshine Coast FrenchFilmFestival
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ALMA and OSKAR. Noosa Sun Matinee
Sun, 04 Aug
|Noosa Heads
Alma was Gustav Mahler's wife. Oskar was Oskar Kokoschka an expressionist painter and their turbulent relationship scandalised Vienna. Alma was spirited and musical and Oskar loved her for the rest of his life. "Beautifully captured" Cineuropa
Time & Location
04 Aug 2024, 2:30 pm – 4:40 pm
Noosa Heads, 29 Sunshine Beach Rd, Noosa Heads QLD 4567, Australia
About the Event
Alma and Oskar film trailer HERE
Alma and Oskar is an enthralling and sometimes outrageous drama directed by Dieter Berner who loves exploring the lives and workings of painters in particular. His last feature was on Egon Schiele, but here he covers the passionate and tumultuous three-year relationship between the Grand Dame of Viennese society Alma Mahler (wife of Gustav Mahler) and Austrian expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka.
In Vienna, in the spring of 1912, the recently widowed Alma Mahler (Emily Cox, The Last Kingdom), a vibrant figure in Vienna’s art and music scene is having an on-again-off-again relationship with architect Walter Gropius (Anton Von Lucke, Babylon Berlin), when Oskar appears on the scene.
An up-and-coming expressionist painter and “Enfant Terrible” of Vienna’s art scene, Oskar sees Alma as a muse, and the years of their relationship marked the most prodigious period in his life.
Yet what starts as a passionate…