Everyone Else

A young couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the Mediterranean. On the surface, Chris and Gitti are perfectly in love while enjoying their time in Sardinia. Beneath their playful romps, secret rituals and silly habits however lies an underlying tension. Full of verve, the idiosyncratic Gitti is fearless in expressing her love and devotion for Chris, while Chris is more reserved in his outlook on life. When they accidentally run into another, obviously happier and more successful couple their fragile relationship destabilizes. But as their fears and insecurities are brutally exposed, Chris and Gitti get a second chance to discover themselves and each other – and to be as happy as everyone else.

CRITICS’ PICK ~ “[A] LOVELY, DELICATE WORK… AT ONCE LAID-BACK AND RIGOROUS… THE FILM’S UNINFLECTED REALISM AND UNFORCED BEAUTY ALONE MAKE IT WORTHY OF EXPLORING AND REVISITING.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times


“PROVOCATIVELY TITLED, SUPERBLY PERFORMED, EMOTIONALLY GRAPHIC. Ade’s exploration of intimacy and its discontents recalls the European relationship epics of 35 years ago—Rivette’s L’amour fou, Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage, Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore.”

– J. Hoberman, Village Voice



CRITICS’ PICK! “Sublime, subtle, and masterfully handled portrait of the dynamics of a young couple.”

– New York Magazine



“FASCINATING… WONDERFULLY SINCERE YET EDGY… IMPRESSIVE.”

– Mina Hochberg, AM-NY



“TERRIFICALLY EXCITING. A love story bristling with insights, a jolt to the head, a kick in the heart.”

– Nelson Kim, Hammer to Nail



“AN EMOTIONAL TOUR DE FORCE. Two amazing performances.”

– Mark Peranson, Cinema Scope



“[Does] for the 21st-century couple what Polanski’s Knife in the Water or Antonioni’s L’Avventura were doing in the ’60s.”

– Philippe Garnier, LA Weekly



* Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Berlin Film Festival *

* Winner, Best Actress Prize, Berlin Film Festival *

* Official Selection, New York Film Festival *


About the Director
Maren Ade was born in 1976 in Karlsruhe, Germany. From 1998 until 2004 she studied producing and directing at the University of Television & Film in Munich. Her feature film debut, The Forest for the Trees (2003), which was also her graduation film, received invitations to numerous international film festivals, was nominated for the German Film Award, and won the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. Everyone Else (2009), her second feature, premiered at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actress Prize for Birgit Minichmayr. It was also an official selection of the 2009 New York Film Festival.

Director’s Statement
Everyone Else is about a new love relationship that hasn’t endured much. The ground rules haven’t been set and everyone is still afraid to completely reveal oneself. I was intrigued by this newly created intricate and unique entity that two people form when
they enter into a relationship. It is such a chaotic meshwork of desires, secrets, demands, power structures and rituals.

“Brilliant. A delicious, acutely observed dissection of the ties between two young lovers.” (Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter)