Everytime
The lives of three people are thrown into disarray after a loss. This Cannes winner unfolds like a long dream built out of different forms of grief, taking us from Berlin on a surreal journey to Tenerife.
A mother (Birgit Minchmayr) and her two daughters (Lotte Keiling, Carla Hütterman) lead a pretty ordinary life in their undersized home in Berlin, when tragedy strikes on the eve of a beach holiday. After the event, the survivors tend to the grave, eat sausages, and play video games with the older daughter’s sweetheart (Tristan Lopéz).
The winner of this year’s Un Certain Regard section at Cannes is like a long dream about the different faces of grief. In mourning, the progress of one’s own life is reduced to glimpses as memories both true and false fight to take over conscious thought. Defiant and impulsive behaviours alternate like for a restless child, shattering the safe chronology of everyday life.
The film by Austrian writer-director Sandra Wollner takes place half in Berlin, half on Tenerife. Despite the disjunction between smooth concrete bunkers and sharp lava rock beaches, it seems the scorching sun is the same all throughout.
Cinematographer Gregory Oke (Aftersun, R&A Spring Break 2023) works real magic. A tense, blurry tracking shot of the rising sun early in the film never truly reaches its target, and it is this very reaching that functions as the core of the whole film.
Johanna Siik (translated by Adrian Murtomäki)
Screenings
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Kino TöölöSun 20.9. at 12.00–14.04124 min, 1/3
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Maxim 2Wed 23.9. at 20.15–22.19124 min, 2/3
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Gilda 2Fri 25.9. at 17.30–19.34124 min, 3/3