Your uncle's hiding something and Paris just got very unromantic.
Sent by her father to live in Paris under her uncle's protection Isaac that she barely knows, and who deals with young drugs addicts like her, Mai, a young Berliner, crosses the paths of people who are not what they claim to be. After breaking the deadlock, she discovers a dark secret whose revelation could have changed the course of her existence.
Acting
Mia Jacob's raw, withholding performance as Maï.
Direction
Hong Chu's suffocating close-ups that trap you with Maï.
Director
Caroline Hong Chu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Caroline Hong Chu based Isaac's clinic on real Parisian harm reduction centers from the 2010s.
The film's title 'Krank' (German for 'sick') was deliberately chosen to signal Maï's dual displacement—linguistically and medically othered in France.
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