Everyone Else
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While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
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Maren Ade's Everyone Else navigates that indistinct space between couples where repressed emotions lay; the leftovers of quarrels lying dormant until a breaking point is reached. Ade's perspective on troubled relationships is invaluable, documenting with a naturalist's eye the clash that occurs when private and public personae are not harmonious. Chris' (Lars Eidinger) individualism and tepid ambition is spurred by outside influences; the desire to project success as a way of countering personal discontent. A run-in with an upper-class acquaintance--the model of capitalist fulfillment--shakes Chris out of complacency and leads him to further pursue his architectural career, at the behest of the dynamic shared with his girlfriend Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr). When Chris trades poolside lounging for research and meetings, the…
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Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine may have gained acclaim as the relationship drama of the year in the Stateside, but that film looks contrived and too self-conscious for its own good when placed beside this Scandinavian gem. Arguably the superior, more restrained yet never less compelling cinematic cousin, Maren Ade eschews auteur conceits and even actorly self-puffing Method egotism to focus on this intelligent cine-essay about the eternal war between social respectability and intimate individuality. Where most American break-up movies of late tries to map out the boy-meets-girl convention by incorporating timeline rejig as if trying to decipher where affairs went wrong, Everyone Else remains defiantly European, even Berman-esque in its approach, turning this ironically sun-kissed holiday-from-hell episode into a gruellingly…
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Not much is going on here, but this is pretty interesting.
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Too great a film for no one to have seen.
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[AVC A] It's not intended to be a fun watch. But the movie didn't make me feel anything. I just didn't care about this relationship falling apart. It's well made, but there were only a couple nice musical scenes that kept my interest.
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Nicely acted study on gender roles within a relationship, and the difficulty of conveying one's emotions when the roles are reversed.
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For those who think BLUE VALENTINE is too sentimental. And can every film have Birgit Minichmayr in a bikini now?
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The movie Blue Valentine wanted to be. A heartbreaking portrait of a failing relationship.
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4.5 out of 5 (A-)