Reviews

“We didn’t make it easy for ourselves. And still, our award-winning film is filled with a lightness that might present a counterpoint to the bleakness of current times. Lightness, however, does not mean superficiality. Quite the opposite, for it’s a film that discusses, with philosophical depth, the things of life, what is, and what remains, all wrapped in a comedic garment: depth of thought, but without obfuscation. 

The screenplay, ambiguous in several ways, captivates, on the one hand, with its wordplay and, on the other, by often allowing for transparency of the characters’ emotional states without dialogue and communicated only through small gestures and fine facial expressions, both of which are expressed with tremendously precise timing. Political moments appear between the lines, unarticulated yet unmissable: sexual autonomy and multicultural diversity are set with a naturalness that requires no discussion of heteronormativity. (...)” (Freya Arde, Peter Kahane, and Mirko Wiermann in their jury statement for the Heiner-Carow-Prize).