Overview
- The film, which opens Thursday, June 25, 2026, is a 98‑minute Germany/Austria production directed and written by Regina Schilling.
- Schilling stages an imagined day in Bachmann’s late life and blends Sandra Hüller’s restrained, indirect enactment with archival recordings and voice material.
- Hüller appears largely non‑dramatic, often in a baby‑blue bathrobe and smoking, and does not speak as a conventional film character.
- Reviewers praise the documentary’s archival strengths, noting the use of interviews and contemporaneous clips such as a Marcel Reich‑Ranicki excerpt, while questioning the usefulness of the staged performance and the film’s deliberately non‑explanatory form.
- The release joins a wider centenary reappraisal of Bachmann that follows recent archival releases and earlier portrayals, including Margarethe von Trotta’s 2023 feature, and reframes debates about gender, isolation and postwar memory in her work.