While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
Acting
Minichmayr's volcanic silences will haunt you for days.
Direction
Ade makes emotional violence feel like a Mediterranean breeze.
Director
Maren Ade
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maren Ade shot chronologically and kept her actors in the dark about scenes, creating genuine unease that bleeds through the screen.
This is basically a dress rehearsal for Ade's later masterpiece Toni Erdmann—same preoccupation with performative competence and the grotesque theater of social class.
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