At the Paris airport Orly, a woman falls for a stranger, a family heads to a funeral, a couple lose touch, a wife reads her husband’s break-up letter. All wait for their planes. Absorbed in their immediate fates, they move through the impeccably structured space, unaware of a looming threat outside.
Direction
Schanelec's rigid framing turns Orly into emotional prison.
Cinematography
Every glass reflection and corridor becomes character.
Director
Angela Schanelec
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Berlin School' movement rejecting plot for pure observation; Schanelec was founding member.
The looming threat is never shown—Schanelec forces you to overhear tragedy like everyone else ignoring it.
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