Overview
- Director Welf Reinhart’s feature, which opened Thursday nationwide, follows an ex-husband with Alzheimer who drifts back into his former partner’s life and unsettles her new relationship.
- Critics across major outlets praise the film’s quiet tone and performances, with many singling out Harald Krassnitzer’s layered portrayal.
- Reinhart sought realism by training as a dementia helper with the German Alzheimer Association and spending a year accompanying two men with dementia.
- Production blended actors with real participants in cooking and singing groups and filmed in actual care facilities to capture everyday rhythms without staging.
- The film premiered earlier at Rotterdam and now draws notice in Germany for reflecting lived experience, including Krassnitzer’s account of his late mother’s dementia and the pressures families face finding short-term care.