A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Acting
Teresa Palmer's physical deterioration is genuinely hard to watch.
Direction
Cate Shortland makes an apartment feel like a collapsing lung.
Cinematography
Berlin's brutalist architecture becomes a prison of concrete and glass.
Director
Cate Shortland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The novel's author Melanie Joosten was inspired by a real encounter with a charming stranger in Berlin—she left, but wondered what if she hadn't.
Shortland specifically cast German actors to capture micro-expressions of cultural translation that Clare cannot read—her isolation is linguistic as much as physical.
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