Brownian Movement

Charlotte is married with one son and is a doctor in a clinic in Brussels. She has sex with patients in an apartment, selecting the men as if setting up a scientific experiment: They are all un­usual, very hirsute, coarse, fat or old. The marriage teeters when her husband Max finds out. Charlotte starts therapy to discov­er what is going on with her, but her confused desires cannot be described in words. In the end, the family moves to India, where Max has a job as an architect. Charlotte gives birth to twins.

Brownian movement describes the permanent random move­ment of particles in liquids and gases that is caused as con­stantly moving atoms and molecules are jolted. Nanouk Leopold revolves around an unexplainable phenomenon with big, com­posed images. What keeps us together and what drives us apart? She tells of a love story between people who stick to each other although they cannot share everything. Leopold has her charac­ters perform in rooms that have been carefully arranged and pre­cisely lit. Containers for whirring particles. –Berlinale