Andreas Patton

Everyday dreamers imagine their attachments scattering to the breeze and becoming someone else in these tableaux of summertime Berlin. As Angela Schanelec threads serendipities—music, movement, tenderness—into ennui’s enervating haze, she outlines the pattern for her critically acclaimed cinema.

Summertime. Everybody is excited to go on vacation to Italy. Everybody but Jasmin. Jasmin is yearning something. She wants to be with Eva, her mother, from whom she had to live seperately for a long time. For weeks, Jasmin is trying to get close to Eva…