Aloys
A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. As he is drawn deeper and deeper, falling in love with her voice, the woman opens up a new universe that may allow him to break out of his isolation and into the real world.
May 7, 1929 in Graz, Austria
18 October 1961, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
1974, Zürich, Switzerland
31 October 1966, Vienna, Austria
August 07, 2016
Nölle's greatest achievement is to keep the magic realist realm firmly anchored to the real so that reality feels touched by imagination rather than smothered by it.September 23, 2016
An odd, stylish little film, reminiscent of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.December 02, 2016
The director describes the story in a dry and extremely precision, turning over its protagonist. [Full review in Spanish]September 27, 2016
Nodding to The Conversation, this is an intriguingly controlled, highly original thriller.November 29, 2016
A prodigious prime opera that seems written and filmed with the language of imagination. Brilliant and hypnotic. [Full review in Spanish]February 27, 2017
Director Tobias Nölle's pretty camera work can't save this film from being an utter chore.September 23, 2016
Austere yet fanciful, it is a haunting vision of loneliness and escape.December 05, 2016
The film is so overloaded with a certain formal exhibitionism that turns out to be a distraction from its spinal weakness. [Full review in Spanish]October 28, 2016
As a first go, Aloys showcases Nölle's superior technical abilities, but the script stammers to an end that only a director who also wrote the film could create.April 05, 2017
Director Tobias Nolle's first full-length film is a tense, dark thriller that delves into contemporary issues of digital isolation, technology, surveillance and privacy.