Our movie is among the top reasons that tourists come to Salzburg ... and it's easy to feel that you've been transported back in time and into our film. Every corner that you turn, there's something beautiful to see.
One of the best films screening at this year's festival is also one that was seriously underrated and misunderstood by both the critics and the public when it first appeared in 1957. 'Saint Joan' was producer-director Otto Preminger's adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1923 play about the life of Joan of Arc, a play the extremely well-read Preminger considered to be 'the greatest masterpiece ever written for the theater.'
When the rickety ladder that gets them to a tiny platform at the structure's top falls to smithereens, the women suddenly discover new meanings of SOL. The film is nothing if not an excuse to gloriously parade a series of show-stopping, sweaty-palm scenes, yet it becomes a deeply psychological, intricate twin character study as Mann gradually peels back the layers of Hunter and Becky's up-and-down friendship, and the latter's gradual rediscovery of her courage.
In captivity, Guido uses his creativity and theatrical instincts to convince the boy that the camp is an elaborate game, with the player conquering the most challenges.