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Director: Marie Kreutzer
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From Time Out Online
Writer-director Kreutzer’s feature debut starts very well, with a dying elderly man visited by a doctor who, it transpires, is his son. Indeed, the first half of the film, in which the rest of the man’s offspring gather for the funeral, including an estranged sister the others hitherto knew nothing about, sets the scene for what looks likely to be an engaging study of shifting allegiances, misunderstandings and revelations, complete with flashbacks to the ’80s, when the family were part of a commune. Thereafter, however, the narrative becomes increasingly contrived, even implausible, and what might have been an incisive look at the consequences of changing values feels rather too neat and predictable.Author: Geoff Andrew
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Marie Kreutzer
Cast: Andrea Wenzl, Philipp Hochmair, Andreas Kiendl, Emily Cox, Marion Mitterhammer
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 105 mins
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