A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still inhabits the house with Irene's writer son Konstantin. Konstantin's girl-friend pops in, too, and all of them drift away from each other more and more.
Direction
Schanelec's clinical gaze refuses easy emotional release.
Acting
Minimalist performances that communicate through absence.
Director
Angela Schanelec
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Berlin School' movement—German filmmakers rejecting conventional narrative for emotional archaeology.
Schanelec cast her own daughter as Mimmi and plays Irene herself, blurring autobiography with fiction in ways that make the silences feel inherited.
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