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The Trouble with Being Born

2020 · 94 min

A cold, unsettling plunge into grief and programmed memory, where stillness and ambiguity leave you uneasy long after.

Directed by
Sandra Wollner
Genres
Science fiction, Drama
Starring
Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard
Overview
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

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Directed by
Sandra Wollner
Genres
Science fiction, Drama
Starring
Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard
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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • identity
  • memory
  • isolation
  • obsession
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror4
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
science fiction, drama
Directed by
Sandra Wollner
Written by
Roderick Warich, Sandra Wollner
Starring
Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard, Jana McKinnon, Simon Hatzl, Susanne Gschwendtner
Music
Peter Kutin, David Schweighart
Cinematography
Timm Kröger
Runtime
94 min
Country
Austria, Germany
Languages
German

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