Saturn Returns

Saturn Returns (2009)

You're doomed to only repeat those moments in the past

Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Galia, a young Israeli woman carrying the promise of a better, cleaner way of living. A tribute to Punk underground films turns into a melodrama in "Saturn Returns", mirroring Lucy and Galia's modulating states of mind. Our and their look into each other's life and culture, becomes an investigation of empty facades. The film was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene.

Date of release
2009-01-01
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Drama
Director
Lior Shamriz

Casting

Interesting facts

Saturn Returns is a 2009 film directed by Lior Shamriz and starring Chloe Griffin, Tal Meiri and Joshua Bogle. It was written and produced by Lior Shamriz and Imri Kahn.

Production

According to the filmmakers, the shooting of the film took place in two days during December 2007 in Israel and twelve days in February 2008 in Berlin, with professional and non-professional actors and a budget of about €2,000. The film was shot and edited by the director, with only one more crew member on set, usually the script co-author, Imri Kahn.

It premiered at the Turin Film Festival as the opening film of its "Waves" section. The festival presented the film as "a 'nouvelle vague' drama that takes place in the distracted heart of Europe by the stateless Israeli director Lior Shamriz". It was later nominated to the German Max Ophüls Prize and won the Best Motion Picture prize at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival ("New Berlin Film Award").

The filmmakers wrote about their film: "One of the objectives of the film was to create a modulating film language that adapts to the states of mind of the characters. The production adjusted itself to every part of the film, sometimes imitating documentary approaches and sometimes setting a framework where scripted dialogue was enacted within a pre-planned shooting."

In early 2010, the director of the film published three experimental films referencing "Saturn Returns" and nicknamed "Saturn Returns Three Satellite Films". Return Return, the first of the three, premiered at the 60th Berlin Film Festival.

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