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Argentine Filmmaker Gaston Solnicki’s ‘The Souffleur’ Follows the Storied Hotel and Its Famous Dish, Both on the Brink of Collapse
The film tells the story of a fabled hotel that's set to be demolished and whose fate seems etched in stone once its famous souffle fails to rise.
In recent years, due to the “curious circumstances of my life,” the Argentine has found himself working more and more in Vienna, a city that feels both culturally familiar — his family traces its roots to Central and Eastern Europe — while also holding significance as what he described as the “birthplace of modern music.” “My films end up being built on real soundscapes,” he says, noting his debut was inspired by Bela Bartok’s opera “Bluebeard’s Castle.” “This idea of absorbing music and idioms of places and the soundscapes…that are often out of reach for more traditional filmmaking — there’s a realm of nuances both in sound, but also in performance, working with non-professional actors, that I find often cinema somehow neglects or, by its own noise, eclipses.” “The Souffleur” will reunite Solnicki with Portuguese cinematographer Rui Poças, a regular collaborator of Cannes prizewinner Miguel Gomes (“ Grand Tour ”), while also utilizing the stunning architecture of the Austrian capital as its backdrop.
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