Alle Anderen (Everyone Else),
Germany 2009, 124 mins.
Dir. Maren Ade. With: Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Nicole Marischka, Hans-Jochen Wagner
German with English subtitles

In a holiday mood filled with yearning on the island of Sardinia, far removed from everyday life, a couple’s problems with freedom and conformity take a dramatic turn for the worse. The intimate and all-too-familiar feelings, situations and behaviour patterns are conveyed by outstanding actors.

“Everyone Else puts love under the microscope … it comes breathtakingly close to perfection” (New York Times).

Film review in New York Times (English).

The Franco-German Film Series is presented by Alliance Française and Goethe-Institut Glasgow on a monthly basis between March and July 2014 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the cohabitation of both cultural institutions in Glasgow