A man who makes a living pretending whom ever other people need him to be, finds his own life imploding when his girlfriend leaves him.
Gentler but similar to the uncomfortable films of Ruben Ostlund and Torgos Lanthimos, this is a film you are either going to love or hate. Mannered in it's telling you can feel the hands of writer director Bernhard Wegner all over it. As much as his protagonist is not in control of things, Wegner is. You are either going to love that or hate it. I didn't much care for it.
What I did care for is the performance of Albrecht Schuch, who gives a masterful role as a man who doesn't know who he is or how to behave. It is one for the ages.
Worth a look if you like uncomfortable comedy.
(ADDENDUM- I saw this weeks before RENTAL FAMILY which is similar in some ways and better. Honestly by the time I saw RENTAL I had forgotten the plot completely)
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