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Plot: A family vacation at the cottage sets the stage for a daring and often uncomfortable generational battle. Filmmaker Stefan Krohmer defiantly pits the jealous needs of Miriam (Martina Gedeck), a still-radiant forty-something mother and wife, against the nuclear sexual flowering of her son's twelve-year-old girlfriend, Livia (Svea Lohde).The casualties of this lethal battle are three men: Nils (Lucas Kotaranin), the son, too young at fifteen to handle Livia's intellectual and carnal carpet bombing; Andre (Peter Davor), the stolid husband, doomed to lose at every turn; and hapless Bill (Robert Seeliger), the charmingly insecure, boyishly handsome neighbour who ends up in the middle of a tug-of-war over his masculine charms. What at first seems like genuine anxiety from Miriam and Andre about the blossoming friendship between Livia and Bill gradually becomes something much more disquieting as Miriam throws herself at Bill as well. This deceptively simple tale speaks profoundly and passionately about issues of sex, death, longing, jealousy and guilt - and does so without an ounce of pretension. It makes its mark through a tight, perfectly orchestrated screenplay and crackerjack performances, especially from Gedeck, star of the commercial sensation Mostly Martha. German cinema is
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Stefan Krohmer
Sie haben Knut, Erpressung - Ein teuflischer Pakt, Die, Ende der Saison |
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Daniel Nocke
Ende der Saison, Familienkreise, Toter Bruder, Ein |
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Martina Gedeck
The Good Shepherd, Leben der Anderen, Das, Mostly Martha | | Svea Lohde
The Women of Rosenstrasse, Kuscheldoktor | Peter Davor
Frau die an Dr. Fabian zweifelte, Die, Shattered Glass, Tatort - Erfroren | | | | |
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