Foreign Travel — Ted Fendt [FID Marseille ’26 Review]

Like few other working filmmakers, Ted Fendt has created for himself a functioning cinematic universe, full of characters seeking creative and intellectual stimulation and answers about how to move through life, captured in precise but unfussy compositions shot on velvety 16mm. It might be easy to dismiss Fendt’s films, with their delicate, sober whiffs of Rohmer and Straub-Huillet, as navel-gazing intellectual exercises — if only his latest, Foreign Travel, weren’t a total repudiation of that charge. Foreign Travel follows Leonie (Leonie...