Carried by a superb screenplay and a blistering performance, this powerfully naturalistic tale takes a sensitive, nuanced look at how a young woman’s life unravels as she struggles to repress the trauma of her rape.
Like its main character, a rape victim whose instinctive attempts to repress the trauma only create more problems, this brilliant first feature by German filmmaker Eva Trobisch is a study in unease. As her stifled angst gives way to a gnawing sense of guilt, Janne sees her world gradually fall apart. Carried by its taut screenplay and a blistering performance from the (already) great Aenne Schwarz, this powerfully naturalistic tale serves up a nuanced behavioural analysis suggesting that our...
Feature film , Drama
GERMANY | 93 minutes | 2018
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