O Beautiful Night — It doesn’t take CGI to make miracles happen
I’ve always liked movies that challenge reality. This is certainly the case for O Beautiful Night, the debut feature by Xaver Böhm, which premiered at Berlinale this year. This strange crossover between Alice in Wonderland and a Faustian narrative tells the story of one crazy night that Juri (Noah Saavedra) finds himself spending with ‘death’ himself, whom the young man fears above all. The movie is full of both macabre and beautiful moments, pulling you in with its childlike curiosity and leaving you with a light and bouncy feeling — and suspicious of the crow on the street…