AFI EU Film Showcase: Everyone Else
The 22nd European Union Film Showcase features 39 films representing 25 countries, including official foreign language Oscar® selections, festival headliners and U.S. and Washington, DC premieres of major first-run releases. Germany will be represented with three highly acclaimed films: Everyone Else, Cloud Nine, and John Rabe.
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Everyone Else [Alle Anderen]
Winner, Best Actress and Jury Grand Prix, 2009 Berlin Film Festival; Official Selection 2009, New York Film Festival.
On vacation in Sicily, Chris (Lars Eidinger) and his girlfriend Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr, Best Actress at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival) appear to be madly in love. But over the course of the vacation, their temperamental personalities clash, as do the stresses of Chris’s career and the inconvenient arrival of another couple with whom they have a strained relationship. Maren Ade’s second film (her first, Forest from the Trees, was part of AFI’s 2006 EU Film Showcase) masterfully and mercilessly dissects the relationship dynamics of two difficult people, like a modern update of great couple-trouble films from the 1960s like Antonioni’s La notte and Donen’s Two for the Road.
DIR/SCR/PROD Maren Ade; PROD Dirk Engelhardt, Janine Jackowski. Germany, 2009, color, 119 min. In German and Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
The festival, which runs from November 5 -24, 2009, is presented by the American Film Institute in collaboration with the Cultural Counselors of the European Union Member States’ Embassies and the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington, DC.
Tickets ($8.50/$10) and more Information: www.AFI.com/Silver
Location: The AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910. (Metro: RED LINE, Silver Spring Station)
