"In his feature film DIE LIEBHABERIN, Lukas Valenta Rinner conveys to us two contrary models of society in visually impressive, almost surreal camera takes. The wealthy and gated community on the outskirts of Buenos Aires lives in immediate and irreconcilable proximity to a community that has devoted itself to free love and nudism. For the housemaid Belén the transition into this seemingly boundless society becomes a fictional inner liberation, depicted in a subtle manner. Laconically and with drastic cinematic means, Lukas Valenta Rinner tells us about the impossibility of overcoming these different ideologies, let alone reconciling them. DIE LIEBHABERIN is an impressive parable of our fundamental cultural differences today, and at the same time a bold cinematic step."
