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Australian Premiere
Aspiring author Samuela is impatiently waiting for her breakthrough. When her boyfriend dumps her, she and her teenage brother take a secret trip to their family’s vacation home in Lanzarote so that she can continue to work on her novel, and instead of the peace and quiet they had hoped for, they discover that their estranged father has been living in the house since his divorce. When Samuela’s mother (Juliane Köhler, Downfall) and her new boyfriend suddenly appear, mayhem ensues, and a family reunion that no one asked for unfolds.
Aaron Arens expertly mines these fractured family dynamics in this award-winning film, extracting comedy gold as secrets are uncovered, and brief truces are formed only to explode again.
The cast are in fine form, particularly Niels Bormann as a misanthropic patriarch with writer's block who sees a shot at redemption when he teams up with his daughter who has her own literary aspirations.
Winner of Best Screenplay at the Munich Film Festival 2024
Audience Rating
Unclassified 18+
Germany
93
Aaron Arens
Julia Windischbauer, Juliane Köhler, Niels Bormann, Jeremias Meyer, Jeremy Mockridge
German, English, Spanish (English Subtitles)
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