This Week at the Detroit Film Theatre: A Taut German Thriller Called “Styx”
The film traces the journey of a German doctor who sets out on a 5,000 km journey across the open Atlantic.
Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. CultureShift airs weekdays from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on 101.9 WDET–FM Detroit Public Radio.
The Detroit Film Theatre is known for screening critically acclaimed narrative and documentary films from all over the world.
This weekend, the theatre is showing Styx, a film about a German doctor who sets out on a 5,000 km journey across the open Atlantic.
WDET’s Ryan Patrick Hooper speaks with the DFT’s film curator, Elliot Wilhelm, to find out more.
The movie examines what it means to be in isolation—which is what “this character’s looking for,” explains Wilhelm. “She’s looking for cerebral and emotional adventure at the end of her voyage, but she’s doing it alone. This movie, in which (the German doctor) crosses a…metaphorical river Styx, begins to take you in another direction. And you think that direction takes place…in the form of an incredible storm sequence. It’s what happens when the storm is over and what she sees from her boat…that begins to move all of us—including this character that we have a lot invested in at this point—in a new direction.”
Tickets and info are available here.
Click on the audio player above to hear DFT Film Curator Elliot Wilhelm preview this weekend’s screening of the movie, Styx.
