Essential Cinema: The Days Between: A Brief Survey of the Berlin School

PASSING SUMMER

Directed by Angela Schanelec

Germany, 2001, 1h 25min, DCP, In German with English subtitles

Essential Cinema  The Days Between: A Brief Survey of the Berlin School

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

Two young women sit in a café. A man and a woman share a dance in a nightclub. A collection of everyday moments is spun into a mesmerizing assemblage of encounters as Angela Schanelec (I WAS AT HOME, BUT…) captures a summer’s passing through a series of austere static shots of an endlessly expanding constellation of Berliners in the life of Valerie (Ursina Lardi), a writer who has decided to remain in the city for the season. Also starring Berlin School regular, Devid Striesow.

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