Everyone Else [94 points / 10 votes]
"Maren Ade burst onto the scene in 2003 with her low budget, shot-on-video feature The Forest for the Trees, a dark and potent gem that was nothing short of brilliant but failed to gain the recognition it deserved. With her new feature Everyone Else, Ade has people everywhere scrambling to catch up, as clearly we are in the presence of a new master. By charting not the formation but the disintegration of a couple, Ade exposes life with another person in a detail rarely displayed on screen.
Gitti and Chris are a young, attractive couple vacationing in Italy for the summer. He is a designer whose career is not quite taking off, she is his unconditional supporter who wants nothing more than to see him succeed. What comes next is not your typical break-up movie. Ade’s film is a collection of those fleeting instances where we jump from loving to loathing, from enjoyment to annoyance and all the other mood shifts that inevitably come about when you spend every waking hour with someone. Acted to sheer perfection and lensed with an acute awareness for the physical and mental games lovers play with one another, this is honest drama served up Cassavetes-style. If we come out of the film thinking Chris and Gitti are a little fucked up, we only need consider the implications of the title, for no matter how like/unlike they are from us, love only needs two people to make sense." - Adam Lemke
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