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| Der Boden unter den Füßen (The Ground Beneath My Feet)photo: ©Juhani Zebra |
Lola (Valerie Pachner, pictured left) is a business consultant specializing in corporate restructuring. It’s a cutthroat business with little room for personal feelings, so Lola works long hours and also hides from her coworkers (and even from her boss, with whom she is having a clandestine affair) the existence of her older sister Conny (Pia Hierzegger, pictured right). Conny has a psychological crisis (not her first), drawing Lola back in, but between the stress of her job and the added stress of dealing with Conny, Lola begins to question her own grip on reality.
We watch all of this unfold piecemeal, with many seemingly disparate threads of the story going down one rabbit hole or another. Unfortunately, the pieces of the puzzle never really assemble into anything remotely like a coherent whole. While there is a certain fascination in watching Lola’s carefully curated façade crumble before our eyes, the end result is decidedly unsatisfying. The performances are first rate, so I’ll give this one a rating of “tepidly recommended,” but I definitely count myself 0 for 2 of the first films I’ve seen in theatre in this year’s Frameline.
We watch all of this unfold piecemeal, with many seemingly disparate threads of the story going down one rabbit hole or another. Unfortunately, the pieces of the puzzle never really assemble into anything remotely like a coherent whole. While there is a certain fascination in watching Lola’s carefully curated façade crumble before our eyes, the end result is decidedly unsatisfying. The performances are first rate, so I’ll give this one a rating of “tepidly recommended,” but I definitely count myself 0 for 2 of the first films I’ve seen in theatre in this year’s Frameline.
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