Pregnancy hormones meet marital disaster in this 79-minute panic attack disguised as a comedy.
An absurd comedy about a couple whose perfect façade is becoming more and more cracked. Olli and Anja are a happy couple – but then Anja gets pregnant and her body releases hormones that turn her into a different person for a few weeks. A stressful person. Anja’s mood swings make Olli despair. Nine months later she goes into labour. On the way to the hospital, Anja accidentally meets Olli’s lover. And from then on, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
Acting
Julia Hartmann's hormonal spiral is terrifyingly committed.
Direction
Rieke keeps the disaster escalating like a car crash in slow-mo.
Writing
Every wrong turn feels inevitable yet somehow surprising.
Director
Janek Rieke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
German cringe-comedy ('Fremdschämen') hits different—less warm than American indie darlings, more surgical in its humiliation.
Director Janek Rieke cast himself as the cheating husband, essentially directing his own on-screen psychological torture for 79 minutes.
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