Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

gaga75 this movie shows nothing but a dysfunctional couple, the woman obviously with a bipolar disorder, the man simply depressed. After having seen them talking past each other for the first ten minutes, I expected the movie to begin. But it didn't. I couldn't believe it would stay like this, so I continued watching. But nothing else happened.Please stop reading here, since that's all there is to say. Unless you want to get a deeper idea of the movie's feeling. Unfortunately I have to fill another 4 lines in order to have IMDb let me submit this review. Maybe thats similar to the writer's situation who didn't have any further ideas after having written the script's first pages.

jotix100 A young couple is visiting the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. Chris, an architect, and Gitti, who handles pop musical groups are staying at his parent's villa high above the town and the beaches. They are left alone, when some other guests depart. Chris and Gitti are in a relationship that for all signs we get, are new at living together.As they explore their sexuality, one gets the impression not everything is what it should be. Perhaps with time, they will achieve some degree of togetherness. Chris has been in touch with someone in the island that wants to use his skills to remodel a home. Gitti finds herself alone most of the time, as Chris meets his prospective client.Spotting a couple Chris knows, one day at a supermarket, changes their lonely existence. Hans is also an architect and his companion, Sana, is a fashion designer. Chris is reluctant to mingle with them, but he cannot avoid them. Meeting for dinner does not end in a happy note as Hans, clearly drunk, throws Sana into the pool. Chris does the same thing to Gitti, who did not appreciate the gesture.With time in her hands, Gitti examines her relationship. Not everything is the way she hoped it would be. Even the times when they are having sex does not make her feel any different. When she decides she has to go back, Chris realizes he has to do something. Finding her on the floor, unresponsive, scares him because he really has come around to realize he really cares for her.Maren Ade's "Everyone Else" is a character study between two people that should be in love, but as we get to know Gitti and Chris better, we realize not everything is there. While Gitti is spontaneous and fun, Chris is reserved, perhaps not as open as she is. Ms. Ade follows the pair as they go through different changes before they realize the how deep is their commitment. What the film cries for is perhaps some editing. A tighter film perhaps would have made the film more accessible to audiences. It is obvious this film was not intended for a large audience and viewers without an idea about what it is about will be bored to death because there is no action to speak of. Ms. Ade takes a look at this complex couple and she is serious about what she wanted to tell.Birgit Minichmayr and Lars Eidinger make an impact as the couple being studied in the film. Ms. Minichmayr fares best as Gitti; she is a natural and she has a way to convey what she is feeling any moment she is in front of the camera. Mr. Eidinger is also good, but it takes a while to warm to him.The film is devoid of music. The only exception comes in the way of a stereo being turned on by one the characters. Bernard Keller photographs the intimate setting of the villa, as well as some rough mountainous area of Sardinia.

Radu_A A typical festival film with zero audience appeal, 'Everyone else' could be used as a literally picture-perfect argument against state-funded film making.The rudimentary story follows a young German couple on an Italian resort island. The man is an unsuccessful architect smooching off his parents (they live in their holiday home), the woman a somewhat bipolar concert manager. Their relationship is questioned by the man's lackadaisical loser attitude and the woman's whimsical fretting.A story like this can only entertain, or at least interest, if it is a little funny. However the director Maren Ade takes very good care to avoid even the slightest trace of humor. Instead, the viewer is dragged along a two-hour stretch of two people boring each other to shreds - a scenario all too familiar to connoisseurs of German cinema.Still, 'Everyone Else' won the Berlin Festival's Grand Jury Prize and its female lead a Silver Bear - which, considering her lobotomous approach to acting, is quite remarkable. This proves in my view once more the flimsiness of festival selections and the way awards are given away: a movie with such obvious dismay for any imaginable audience must surely be artistic and therefore prize-worthy - for culture politicians. Not for cineasts and the general public, that's for sure.A much better German approach to the same topic would be the equally dry, but much more entertaining 'Windows on Monday' (aka Montags kommen die Fenster, 2006). That film has a weird sense of humor to it, which makes the drab couple-conflict plot work quite well.

Mozjoukine The thinking is too obvious. Get a couple of well built people to talk for two hours, with some (uninspiring) nudity thrown in and no one has to find too much money to produce something that looks like a movie. There are so many film festivals, one of them is bound to play it.Fraulein Minichmayr is lively enough and she's been in some real films (Downfall, Perfume)so her first scene with the little girl holds hope - "Tell me why you think I'm so awful." Co star Eidinger as an architect offers a chance for some comment on taste and style which fail to impress.Production values are in the competent unimpressive bracket.It was the end of the Sydney Film Festival but this was not the movie to offer an audience which had just been blackjacked with the ridiculous Ming-liang Tsai VISAGE. Have they no mercy? Even film festival subscribers deserve pity.