It’s worth your time, your discomfort, your possible scorn and your weirdly grudging affection, maybe all at once.

A blisteringly funny and often touching film about people struggling towards happiness despite having experienced lifetimes of disappointment.

We know there’s great tragedy and ugliness behind the smoke and mirrors, but we watch in amusement nonetheless. Sinisterly, Seidl reminds us how easy it is to turn people into objects for the taking.

By dint of the fact that Rimini showcases such a vast gulf between performance and direction, Seidl’s return to fictional filmmaking is, if nothing else, hugely interesting.