Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.
Acting
Salomé Richard's beautifully unhinged, lived-in performance.
Direction
Lang's patient, documentary-like observation of ordinary moments.
Practical Effects
The actual bathroom renovation—stressful, real, weirdly satisfying.
Director
Rachel Lang
Salomé Richard
Ana
Claude Gensac
Grandmother
Lazare Gousseau
Grégoire
Swann Arlaud
Simon
Olivier Chantreau
Boris
Jorijn Vriesendorp
Mira
Noémie Rosset
Meriem
Zabou Breitman
Ana's Mother
Thomas Silberstein
Samson
Régis Lang
Ana's Father
Kate Moran
Lois
Mathieu Mortelmans
Production Assistant
Sam Louwyck
Andrew
Driss Ramdi
Amar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title comes from Ana's failed attempt to say 'bath' in German—'Baden'—capturing her whole linguistic and cultural displacement in one mangled word.
Director Rachel Lang expanded this from a 2013 short; the feature became a sleeper hit in France for capturing a generation too educated to settle, too broke to choose.
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