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Scheherazade

Screening on Film
Directed by Riccardo Signorell.
With Antonia Beamish, Siegfried Terpoorten, Zoé Mikuleczky.
Switzerland, 2001, 35mm, color, 85 min.
Swedish with English subtitles.

Young Swiss director Riccardo Signorell worked in animation, documentary, and short films before moving into feature work. Scheherazade, his second effort, is a taut psychological drama of family intrigue set aboard the luxury yacht of a family patriarch, a successful commodities trader. Into the celebration of his daughter’s eighteenth birthday enters her brother, with his English gallerist girlfriend and a German banker in tow. As a conflict between father and son emerges, a champagne-induced game of truth or dare ensues, with suggestions of dark family secrets. The film was nominated for a Golden Leopard award at the 2001 Locarno Film Festival. 

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