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Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. He funds his dissolute lifestyle and addiction to gambling with concerts for busloads of tourists and sexual favours for his female fans. His world starts to collapse when his adult daughter suddenly breaks into his life and demands money from him that he never gave her. Meanwhile his elderly father, who suffers from dementia, goes round and round in circles in an Austrian nursing home.
With Rimini, I wanted to depict the contradictions of a washed-up singer navigating family wounds, faded fame, and the lure of money. Set in a bleak winter resort, the film mirrors decline and longing in a consumerist world. What the story reveals is that beneath the glitter of performance lies emptiness, and beneath broken families lie unhealed scars. The film asks viewers to reflect on how people cope with failure, loneliness, and aging. Rimini confronts the illusions of success while offering a portrait of survival in a world that commodifies even intimacy.