The radiance of this Viennese hotel in such a prominent location is fading. Lucius Glanz, the manager, stubbornly attempts to resist the march of time, but there’s no stopping the sale of the post-war jewel. THE SOUFFLEUR marks the completion of Gastón Solnicki‘s essayistic Viennese trilogy on transience, as he pays homage to the Hotel Intercontinental and finds in Willem Dafoe a magnetic helmsman for a sinking ship.

Gastón Solnicki has a particular faible for Vienna, its sounds and its layers. In the first images of A LITTLE LOVE PACKAGE he has captured for posterity the last hours when it was still permitted to enjoy a cigarette with one’s melange in a Viennese café. And in a city where the vanished past never entirely dissolves, the Argentinian filmmaker begins his story together with two women, one of whom intends to settle in Vienna. Just as the search for an apartment in Vienna develops into an associative voyage, A LITTLE LOVE PACKAGE becomes an essay on remaining and passing by.