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Ingeborg Bachmann – Someone Who Was Once Me

2026 · 97 min

An intimate, essayistic collage that feels like wandering through a brilliant mind's archives, demanding patience but rewarding with quiet resonance.

Overview: Sandra Hüller portrays Ingeborg Bachmann on an imaginary day in Rome. Regina Schilling’s hybrid film weaves together reenactments, archival footage, and Bachmann’s own writings into a portrait that offers a refreshing new perspective on the author and positions her writings as a reference point in current debates on gender relations and power.
How it feels: Melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, gender, power, art
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
gender
power
art
memory
Places: big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild