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A high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.A high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.A high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.
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Excellent Austrian drama film on schizophrenie, depression, burnout, family issues, capitalism, sexism. A workaholic and anxious top-level white collar specialized in reorganizing companies and selecting people to fire deals with her stressful work goals and routine while needs to split her attention in order also to guard her older sister who had a suicide attempt and suffers from serious psychiatric disease. Besides well acted and well directed, the movie impresses for its quite good script, which I will no detail in order not to give spoilers. It shows very carefully the way the main character sees everything that deviates her from her career as a burden, including her sister and her own health.
A precise film about meaning of life. About work and the steps of profesional succes. About family and the option about priorities. About rivalries, life, falls and fragil balance. And, sure, about abyss, long chain of insecurity and fears anddesire of control, and ignored other. A well crafte story, beautiful performances and direct message.
A sister's mental health causes an overworked workaholic consultant her own psychological issues as she juggles both in a tale that teaches the lesson there are more important things in life to get distressed about.
This is a story about a talented, ambitious, and highly defended young woman struggling with her humanity and struggling with whether to let others breach her walls. As those walls begin to crumble, so does she.
Let's dispense with the absurd notion that this is a "lesbian" film. Sure, Lola is in a same-sex relationship. But that no more makes this a lesbian film than her being in a business consulting job makes it a business consulting film. There's no indication whether she identifies as lesbian, or bi, or whatever. It doesn't matter. This is a film about being a human being.
I was pleased to see that Valerie Pachner won the German best actress award for this film. She was terrific.
As a viewer, I was left with the same uncertainty about what was really going on that Lola experienced. This diminished only a little on the second watching. I thought that was kind of cool.
Disclaimer: my opinions are backed up by zero expertise in Film as an art form, and far less than the average layperson's knowledge of movies in general.
Let's dispense with the absurd notion that this is a "lesbian" film. Sure, Lola is in a same-sex relationship. But that no more makes this a lesbian film than her being in a business consulting job makes it a business consulting film. There's no indication whether she identifies as lesbian, or bi, or whatever. It doesn't matter. This is a film about being a human being.
I was pleased to see that Valerie Pachner won the German best actress award for this film. She was terrific.
As a viewer, I was left with the same uncertainty about what was really going on that Lola experienced. This diminished only a little on the second watching. I thought that was kind of cool.
Disclaimer: my opinions are backed up by zero expertise in Film as an art form, and far less than the average layperson's knowledge of movies in general.
If you like female nudity, lesbian sex scenes and high heels then this film is for you. If you want a clear narrative and satisfying ending then perhaps not. Early on I suspected I was watching a Hitchcock influenced tale and the set up suggested there was a mystery to be solved. I was wrong. Overall I enjoyed this film, thought it was well shot in a Michael Haneke sort of way and the acting was compelling. I just felt the narrative lacked focus (is it a thriller, is it a lesbian love story, is it a critique of corporate life, is it a comment on mental health issues?) and the ending felt somewhat flat.
Did you know
- TriviaThe hotel gym that Lola frequents every morning has a mantra on its entrance: "Fitter. Happier. More productive." This is the opening line to the Radiohead song "Fitter Happier."
- SoundtracksWater Music - Allegro moderato
Music by George Frideric Handel (as Georg Friedrich Händel)
Courtesy of Extreme Music GmbH
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- The Ground Beneath My Feet
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- Gross US & Canada
- $29,251
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,295
- Jul 28, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $29,251
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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