The Forest for the Trees
This Is Cinema Now: 21st Century Debuts
July 19 - 31, 2019
An elementary-school teacher moves to a new city to start over following a breakup, but shoots herself in the foot at every turn in The Forest for the Trees, which announced the arrival of Maren Ade’s idiosyncratic cinematic perspective.
In her caustic and insightful films Everyone Else and Toni Erdmann, German filmmaker Maren Ade (a former member of the influential “Berlin School” of filmmakers) dramatized with comedy and discomfort how the fragile bonds between people—between lovers; between parents and children—can lead to chaos and catharsis. In her low-budget first film, Ade trained her camera on a more solitary figure: Melanie (Eva Lobau), an elementary-school teacher who moves to a new city to start over following a breakup, but who shoots herself in the foot at every turn. Shot on handheld DV, the sometimes skin-crawling but always incisive The Forest for the Trees announced an idiosyncratic new cinematic perspective: amusing yet unsparing, realist yet tinged with psychological extremity.
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