Ulrich Seidl: A Director at Work

Something that makes Ulrich Seidl so fascinating a director is that his filmmaking process actively merges the real and unreal – Jacques Rivette said that every film is a documentary of its own making, Godard’s variation on the phrase is that every film is a documentary of its actors, and Seidl seems to be one of the few directors today that places those ideas front and center in their films. His sense of “staged reality” (which I wrote about in my review ofIn The Basement yesterday) creates...