Clinch

Although he spent a relatively short period of his life in Austria Canadianborn John Cook 19352001 remained in his own words Viennese by choice Having worked as a commercial photographer in Paris Cooks first regular production was Schwitzkasten based on a novel by the leftist writer Helmut Zenker Today the film is considered one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the New Austrian Cinema a freewheeling tender and strangely humorous portrait of workingclass and outofwork lives