Since its premiere in Rotterdam, which is the attitud of the public and critic towards the film?
Interkosmos is the gift that keeps on giving. I had been used to a slow burn with my films. It took wüstenspringmaus nearly a year to get going and same with Decision 80 and el guero/comunista! But it great some great reviews from critics at Rotterdam which really helped. It’s an odd sort of experimental film so it needed all the help it could get. It’s still screening around. The American audiences that are used to strange cinema and are open-minded usually love the film; those that are prepared for a wacky mockumentary comedy are disappointed because the humor sometimes spills into a pseudo-scientific monograph or a political diatribe, which I love but kind of dampens the humor. I was at the screenings in Rotterdam and in Leipzig, Germany. Even though there’s a lot of German, the film basically plays best to an English-speaking audience because everything is subtitled or in English voiceover and some of the German in garbled. So in Germany, people didn’t laugh at the parts like the T
