Master provocateur Ulrich Seidl returns in unnerving style, following German and Austrian tourists on their big game hunting holidays in Africa. From their base at a Namibian hunting lodge, they set out to stalk their prey, taking careful aim and sobbing with elation as they kill zebras, impalas and giraffes.
Seidl's trademark eccentric tableaus add another disturbing dimension to a world where white tourists pose before the rare animals they have 'bagged', before the Namibian ranch-hands get to work preparing furs and heads for the tourists to take home.
In Seidl's words, Safari is a vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.
It's off-season in the Italian coastal town of Rimini, where washed-up crooner Richie Bravo struggles to make ends meet. With his headlining days well behind him, Richie scrounges for no-frills hotel gigs, catering to an ever-dwindling (but fiercely loyal) female fan base, the more lascivious of whom he also charges for sex. Despite mounting financial woes and waning stardom, Richie still thinks he's God's gift. That is until the unexpected arrival of his estranged daughter threatens to burst his precarious bubble of self-denial.