ABOUT SCHMIDT

Alexander PAYNE
  • 2002
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films

Warren Schmidt, a man who is set adrift following retirement and the sudden death of his wife. Uncertain about his future as well as his past, Warren packs up his 30-foot Winnebago to set out on a journey across the Nebraska plains to attend his daughter’s wedding to a waterbed salesman. But every step he takes seems wrong, and Warren seems destined to end his life as he lived it: a failure. But along the way, Warren recounts his journey and shares his observations with an unexpected friend – a poor Tanzanian boy he is sponsoring for 73 cents a day. In his long letters to the boy, Warren begins to see himself and the life he has lived with new eyes.

Directed by : Alexander PAYNE
Year of production: 2002
Country: United States
Duration: 125

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24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE

Michael WINTERBOTTOM

CHIHWASEON

Kwon-Taek IM

DEMONLOVER

Olivier ASSAYAS

KEDMA

Amos GITAI

L’ADVERSAIRE

Nicole GARCIA

LE FILS

Jean-Pierre DARDENNE, Bruce BROWN

MIES VAILLA MENNEISYYTTÄ

(THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST) Aki KAURISMAKI

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE

Paul Thomas ANDERSON

REN XIAO YAO

(UNKNOWN PLEASURES) JIA Zhang-Ke

RUSSIAN ARK

Alexander SOKOUROV

SPIDER

David CRONENBERG

TEN

Abbas KIAROSTAMI

THE PIANIST

Roman POLANSKI

YADON ILAHEYYA

Elia SULEIMAN