Of all the surprises lobbed by
Blood Red Sky, the biggest one is that the audacious conceit holds from ominous start to explosive finish.
The mostly German-language Netflix movie is equal parts hostage thriller, family bonding drama and horror film. A forewarning is provided by the woman referred to as “Mom” in the subtitles. She appears ill and ill at ease. She never lets her precocious son Elias out of her sight, and hangs on to him for dear life when terrorists hijack the plane that is taking them from Germany to the US.
A secret weapon is on board, which doesn’t only challenge the hijackers but also our confirmation biases and notions of evil and monstrosity. Without giving any spoilers away – the film has to be seen to be believed – suffice it to say that director Peter Thorwarth conjures up a nail-biting gorefest that leaves nearly every corner of the plane splattered by the end of 121 minutes.
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Following on from dark Mipdrama thriller “The Winemaker,” Germany’s Goodfriends Filmproduktion, producer of recent HBO Max release “Arthur’s Law,” is re-teaming with Austria’s Satel Film, the company behind Netflix smash hit “Freud,” to produce “Mozart,” a limited series that casts Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a new and revolutionary light.
Andreas Prochaska, “The Winemaker” director and co-writer, is attached to direct from a screenplay penned by multi-prized Austrian screenwriter Martin Ambrosch.
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Ambrosch’s credits include a longterm creative partnership with Prochaska on multiple multi-prized films, which take in the Sam Riley starrer “The Dark Valley,” which swept the Austrian Film Awards in 2015. Ambrosch also wrote “Cold Hell,” directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, who won a 2008 Academy
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At the start of lockdown, when a potent mix of nursery closure, Zoom ineptitude and Covid confusion made life almost unbearable, Quiz was a beacon of light.
It was tense and silly, with wonderful performances that went beyond caricature or impression to round out the show’s Major players (groan) – led by a sheepish and sweaty Matthew Macfadyen.
When so much drama is about solving brutal murders, here was a more joyous conundrum: did an upper middle-class nitwit really outsmart a TV juggernaut to the tune of a million quid?
In truth I don’t care, and I suspect the masterful writer James Graham doesn’t either. Instead, Quiz was a paean to uncertainty and a celebration of grey areas – it said something important about the quest for truth and ‘right’ answers and then pricked its own ego with jokes about Craig David and an ill-prepared glitter man.