I've long felt that anyone who is particularly antagonistic to North Korea who is not Korean or, I don't know, the family of a kidnapped Japanese civilian, is at least as weird, if not more, than a person who idolizes North Korea. I'm very curious about the politics of "the mole," whose political motivations regarding some contact with citizens of the GDR (East Germany) are presented skeptically by the director in a commentary (along with an unintentionally amusing shot of…

Unfortunately the director's personal story is not interesting enough nor connected enough to Alterlaa to save this film from its lack of interesting insight about social and cooperative housing in Vienna or Alterlaa itself, including what was going on in the general "Kreisky era" to make Alterlaa happen and what its continuities and ruptures were with earlier social housing. Instead, stabs are made at emphasizing the constructed nature of a documentary, feminist critique and the possibly generational problems of an…