Director: Maren Ade
Everyone Else is the sort of film that it looks like it's easy to make but is in fact very difficult to do correctly. It's largely about a troubled relationship between two people in their late 20s or early 30s - but there aren't many grand gestures or long overtures. It's simply clear that neither person has much of an idea of what's going on in the other's head, and that can be both exhilarating and tormenting. And I think it's very difficult to make this kind of film without making it either overly boring or overly theatrical.
There's shades of Blue Valentine and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in here, but it's really not that kind of film. I don't know exactly what to make of it - it feels like a Woody Allen film with all of Woody Allen's pithy observations removed.
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