The Trouble with Being Born
Austrian director Sandra Wollner’s eerily placid work of science fiction—which begins as though a summer idyll in an isolated forest house between a middle-aged man (Dominik Warta) and what appears to be his adolescent daughter (Lena Watson)—becomes a disturbing, unsentimental vision of the fracturing effects of technology on human life and memory.
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This eerily placid work of science fiction begins as though a summer idyll in an isolated house in the forest between a middle-aged man (Dominik Warta) and what appears to be his adolescent daughter (Lena Watson). As the languorous days wear on, instances of a stranger, more intimate relationship between the two emerge, and we discover not all is what it seems in this otherworldly yet earthy environment. The film then takes a turn when the girl drifts away into the woods. Austrian director Sandra Wollner’s disturbing, unsentimental vision of the fracturing effects of technology on human life and memory is both compassionate and unsparing, and vivid in its hard-to-shake imagery.
Berlinale FIPRESCI Prize Award Winner
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