Everyone Else

A few months ago I was trying to catch up with the best films of 2010 but didn't actually get to see before the awards.  Luckily Maren Ade's 'Everyone Else' was on Netflix instant watch. It is one of those films my brain keeps wandering back to, so I figured it was worth a mention on my blog.  EE is a film about the power dynamics of a relationship....  About the insecurities we sometimes feel about ourselves, how we worry our significant other perceives us, or feels we aren't quite living up to their expectations of a partner in the long view.... and ultimately comes down to finding a way to carve out a relationship that isn't oppressed by a bourgeois definition of itself -- a fairly tricky thing to navigate, as Ade explores.  I became rather smitten with Lars Eidinger who plays Chris and enjoyed watching Birgit Minichmayr who plays Gitti, his girlfriend.  My favorite remark about 'Everyone Else' comes from my friend Miriam who writes:
'[...] there is new math here: figuring how long her club "cool" trumps his square bourgeois inheritance as the couple transitions from their classless twenties towards their invested forties. Also unexpected were the lovingly rendered shots of a young man's bald spot and his soft and bony, sloping frame. Ah yes, this was a film made by a woman. A film of a couple laughing together and watching each other move from behind, from a few paces back.' 
(Miriam also writes about 'Everyone Else here)

Have to include pics of the lovely Lars, of course...