Director Frauke Havemann’s story about traveling into the woods with her dramaturg to discuss a new project at the onset of Covid-19 feels crucial to understanding the experience she and co-writers Peter Stamer & Matthias Wittekindt bring to the screen with Be Right Back. The initial sense of escapism. The inevitable introduction of that nightmare via social media and the internet. The increasing emotional uncertainty and existential crisis born from knowing you must return to the world as it’s shutting down. The projection of fears and anxieties upon nature to turn serenity into chaos. It’s the sort of context we need to see her characters as more than weird eccentrics and their world as more than purgatory. It’s a doorway towards relatability.
That doesn’t make this a Covid film, though. It merely helps us appreciate the headspace of those we follow, considering Havemann is uninterested in...
That doesn’t make this a Covid film, though. It merely helps us appreciate the headspace of those we follow, considering Havemann is uninterested in...
- 2/2/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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