March 4 at 2:30 pm: In German with French Subtitles
March 5 at 2:30 pm: In German with English Subtitles
(Alle Anderen)
By Maren Ade, 2009, 119 min., 35mm, colour, with: Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Nicole Marischka, Hans-Jochen Wagner. In German with English subtitles.
Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2009
Best Actress Award, Berlin Film Festival 2009
Best Director and FIPRESCI awards at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival 2009
“
Trenchant, funny, and sensitive” - The Village Voice
Following her surprising and nuanced debut film, The Forest for the Trees, Maren Ade further demonstrates her fine sense of observation in her follow-up feature, Everyone Else, which focuses on Gitti and Chris, a couple in their thirties on vacation in Sardinia. On the surface, their love and idyll seem perfect, but when they run into another seemingly happy couple, this provokes a shift in roles and power. What follows is a complex, subtle, at times heart-breaking and humourous exploration of a volatile relationship brought to the brink, and about the lengths to which we will go to save a relationship. With a fine sense of balance for the psychology of her characters and an attention to detail, Maren Ade’s second feature confirmed her as a new talent to watch.
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Brilliant dissection of a relationship and, more subtly, of class relations in contemporary Germany.” - The Hollywood Reporter
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Ms. Minichmayr and Mr. Eidinger are beautifully matched and so believable as a couple that you never doubt their intimacy or the emotions of their characters. They fit together as easily as they slip apart, with a naturalness that is rare on the screen… the film’s uninflected realism and unforced beauty alone make it worthy of exploring and revisiting.” - New York Times
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Everyone Else is not about hurricanes and earthquakes and knives in the back. It’s about private, emotional phenomena: the tiny tremors and imperceptible shifts that bring a couple closer together or drive them apart, almost without their noticing.” - Bosten Globe
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