Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late

Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late (German: Peter Handke – Bin im Wald. Kann sein, dass ich mich verspäte...) is a 2016 German documentary film directed by Corinna Belz. It is about the Austrian writer Peter Handke and his home in Chaville, France. The film was shot over a period of more than three years.[1]

Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late
Directed byCorinna Belz
Produced byThomas Kufus
Written byCorinna Belz
CinematographyNina Wesemann
Axel Schneppat
Piotr Rosolowski
Edited byStephan Krumbiegel
Production
company
Zero one film
Distributed byPiffl Medien
Release date
  • August 2016 (2016-08) (Locarno)
  • 10 November 2016 (2016-11-10)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Release

The film premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2016. It was shown at the Hof International Film Festival on 26 October 2016 before being released in regular German cinemas on 10 November.[2]

Reception

Phillip Haibach wrote in Die Welt: "Corinna Belz can of course not show [Handke] in his actual profession, writing, only in monologue, in remembering the happiness of writing his first book in the then new retreat: 'That's how you inaugurate a house, not with some party.'" Haibach wrote that Belz successfully uses archive footage to avoid that the entire documentary becomes a celebration of a "cult of genius".[1]

References
  1. Haibach, Phillip (2016-11-10). "Dieser Dokufilm zeigt Peter Handkes geheimsten Ort". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 2017-05-14.
  2. "Peter Handke – Bin im Wald. Kann sein, dass ich mich verspäte..." Filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-05-14.
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