Housewife Therese Karlen has been suffering from insomnia for some time. Overwhelmed by her husband and children, she sets off with pensioner Liselott on a journey of self-discovery to the Bernese Oberland.
Direction
Volpe's restraint lets silence scream
Cinematography
Bernese Oberland as character, not backdrop
Director
Petra Biondina Volpe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Swiss cinema rarely centers middle-aged women's interiority; Volpe's debut helped crack that glacier.
The 'Nice' in the title is a cruel irony—Therese's weekend is anything but, and that's deliberate.
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