Great acting, wonderful script, open sexuality and provocativeness is so refreshing next to most American films, has a wonderful sense of blocking. Realizing you need to live your life your way before it ends. Love being a fantastical idea that only exists when it seems like everything will go away or you are young & innocent. Realizing your own past mistakes and errors can be made up for, and finally living a life that you seemed to have lost, passion finally regained. Life is tough, but not enjoying the brief time you have is even harder. So many wonderful lines of dialogue that provoke thought and made you think about the life you lead, and the lives that are led around you. Asking questions about stagnant marriages, the innocence of young love, and finally resisting the stasis and escaping to your own self-reflection. Love to see when characters learn, change, and grow from the stasis from which they are kept. Impeccable performance by Claudia Michelsen, such vulnerability and the wonderful quite frustration, wanting to explore but unsure how far to go. Ulrich Tucker is also wonderful as her husband, a man who cheated on her, broke her heart, yet still has the gall to complain about her finally doing the same thing to him, somehow sympathetic and conniving at the same time. Derflinger shoots the movie impeccably, with an eye for the cross between bodies, and the way the bodies come together and separate. The human body as an experiment of filmmaking, how it moves and how it ends up, we are all the same species yet so far apart. The screenplay is wonderful, the dialogue is so beautifully written, each monologue was like I was being spoken to through the screen, hit me to my core. Dialogue about the ritualistic process of marriage, breaking up, loving, and falling back out of it. The midlife crisis is a horrifying journey, we know that life will reach that eventuality but doesn't make it hurt any less. The beauty in the tragedy, plays like a Shakespearen play, without all of the murder, just the murder of a broken heart. Also just really damn mesmerizing and engaging, only 88 minutes but just kind of flies by, just a series of well-written characters & scenes you actually get involved with.
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