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Many films deal in misery, but arthouse films have a line in gloom all their own. Catherine Shoard offers a tick-list of their grim specialities ... Full of good cheer ... Import/Export 'Death. Death. Death. Death. Death." So goes the killer last line of Import/Export, squawked out by an old lady with dementia in a scuzzy Austrian hospital.Released last week to equal parts acclaim and horror, Ulrich Seidl's latest is arduous art-film par excellence. The story of two young people sinking deeper into a pit of despair seems to tick all the boxes for the critically approved arthouse hit: sadism, sex trafficking, the spectre of communism, terminal illness, stately tracking shots, hypothermia. Cast: Ekateryna Rak, Georg Friedrich, Maria Hofstatter, Michael Thomas, Paul Hofmann, Susanne Lothar It's the latest in a great tradition of... [read full story]
