Forgive Me

Selling himself to the devil, Cyrus Frisch goes even further on the path of controversy than in his previous work. He develops a dialectic between himself as a provocateur, theatre-maker, scriptwriter of people’s lives and protagonist in his own film. He penetrates the lives of ‘outsiders’ he has come across in the street: the alcoholic Peter who visits prostitutes and his psychotic alcoholic ex-girlfriend Chiquita, her ex-boyfriend who is suffering from a rare disease, the wheelchair-bound heroin addict Achmed, a woman whose daughter has been killed by a junkie and Astrid, who dreams of a career as a singer. Frisch provokes questions about the morality of (his) filming, and at the same time the morality of the viewer who is thrown back and forth between disapproval and fascination, but still keeps on looking. (Catalogue 30th Film Festival Rotterdam)