53rd San Francisco International Film Festival 22 April - 6 May 2010
FILMS/
EVERYONE ELSE
Alle anderen
New Directors
Germany, 2009, 119 minutes
SHOWTIMES
Sun, Apr 25 / 8:45 / Kabuki / EVER25K
Tue, Apr 27 / 3:30 / Kabuki / EVER27K
Thu, Apr 29 / 6:15 / Kabuki / EVER29K
CREDITS
- dir
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Maren Ade
- prod
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Janine Jackowski, Dirk Engelhardt, Maren Ade
- scr
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Maren Ade
- cam
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Bernhard Keller
- editor
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Heike Parplies
- cast
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Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Nicole Marischka, Hans-Jochen Wagner
- source
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The Cinema Guild, 115 W. 30th Street, Suite 800, New York, NY 10001. FAX: 212-685-4717. EMAIL: ldedo@cinemaguild.com.
Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, Maren Ade’s second feature is a finely observed psychological study of a young German couple whose seemingly passionate union sorely tested while on holiday in Sardinia. Gitti and Chris, in their early 30s and the first blush of their relationship, seem crazy about each other but subtle clues suggest there could be trouble in Eden. Gitti is bold, fun-loving and openhearted; Chris is a brown study of intellectual rigor and almost Zen-like calm who nonetheless harbors a glaring lack of self-confidence. Amid whiffs of Rossellini’s Stromboli, we observe these two pale Nordic specimens grapple with their respective identities, mirrored in the other’s eyes. All the while, they do what lovers on holiday do, lolling around Chris’s parents’ summer house, having conversations in the secret language of lovers and engaging in the age-old rituals of sexual play. By the time trouble arrives, in the form of another German couple they meet on the island, our two lovers already have noticed the seeds of discord. Ade’s brilliant sophomore effort should be placed alongside Scenes from a Marriage and Tom Noonan’s The Wife for its piercingly intelligent examination of a relationship hovering in the netherworld between commitment and dissolution. Anyone who has suffered the psychic pain a volatile romance will find Everyone Else all too eerily close to home.
—Beverly Berning
Presented with support from the Goethe-Institut San Francisco.
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