Film
"Wir Monster"

September 1st, 2016
7:00 PM Goethe-Institut Ottawa

(Wir Monster)
By Sebastian Ko, Germany, 2014, 95 min., with: Mehdi Nebbou, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Janina Fautz.
German with English subtitles.

“A thriller that's riveting in its suspense and unnerving in its subject matter … Tautly paced and psychologically acute." – Toronto International Film Festival

What would you do, if you learned that your child had done something terrible? Faced with this horrible knowledge, separated parents, Paul and Christine, decide to override their conflicted consciences to do whatever they can to protect their disturbed daughter. Not surprisingly, their own troubled actions have troubling ramifications.

“Andreas Köhler’s magnificent cinematography creates some of the most indelible compositions I’ve seen this year, building a Hitchcockian sense of dread with its claustrophobic angles". – Matt Fagerholm, rogerebert.com