Overview
- Mascha Schilinski directs the non-linear drama co-written with Louise Peter, weaving four generations into a single location in northern Germany.
- The film blends disparate film stocks, repeated imagery, blurring, and overlapping scenes to create an impressionistic chronology.
- Voiceovers detail depression, suicidal ideation, and references to forced sterilization, tying intimate pain to broader history.
- Reviewers single out Hanna Heckt and Zoë Baier for especially affecting performances across the film’s roughly 2.5-hour runtime.
- A tense sound design gives the farmhouse a ghost-story aura, and the release is playing in theaters now.