Twenty-two-year-old Lynn lives spontaneously waiting to see what the day brings. Earning money as a dancer in a trendy nightclub allows her to release her pent-up energy. Impulsive, she has difficulty relating to her disciplined boyfriend David, a professional swimmer with a strict practice schedule. Her love life takes a turn when she meets Japanese student Koji, who shares her sense of freedom, sensuality and abandon. –Celluloid Dreams
Maria Speth, born in Titting/Bavaria on 19.8.1967. After taking acting lessons she worked, as of 1990, as an editor’s and director’s assistant on cinema and TV films. 1996-2002 she studied at the “Konrad Wolf” Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. After making short films, she graduated with her prize-winning debut “In den Tag heinein” (“The Days Between”, 2001). Maria Speth writes and directs all her films. She developed the look of her feature films together with DoP Reinhold Vorschneider. —Berlinale
My girlfriend liked it a lot: 4.5. I don't share her opinion. Maybe it's a movie for girls (by girls).
Some visually spectacular scenes in a rather ho-hum film. The topics really appear to be boredom and lack of communication — between the main characters, Lynn and her boyfriend, Lynn and her brother… read review