Seen at the Viennale 2023: we all know the feeling. Coming to a party, feeling that all other people are cooler and smarter and more beautiful, too. In this situation we lose the last intelligence in the brain and start to mumble. Best to leave or drink - hoping to get in a more likeable mood. Petzold takes this situation and has the problem that that theme alone cannot fill a whole movie. In the end he makes a movie around an coming age topic. I guess, not many 20somethings will flock in the cinemas for the latest Petzold. And grownups want more than to follow a sad fellow, when everybody knows that will change over the years anyway, looking at that character.
