A love story has come to its end. When a man steps into the room where his beloved one lives, she tells him to go and that she doesn't want to see him anymore. He realizes that this is going to be their last meeting - the epilogue. Afterwards he remembers the tragic ending of their relationship in a different way from what really happened.
Direction
Tykwer's early experiments with time-as-character.
Editing
The cut that fractures reality—devastatingly precise.
Director
Tom Tykwer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tykwer made this as a student film at Munich's HFF—it's essentially his thesis on how cinema can manipulate temporal perception.
The 'unreliable male narrator' structure here directly anticipates everything from MEMENTO to THE NICE GUYS, but with none of the ironic distance.
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