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Mubi is spotlighting debutante French director Rachel Lang. On November 30 and December 1, respectively, we'll be exclusively showing her two short films, For You I Will Fight (2010), White Turnips Make It Hard to Sleep (2011), leading up to the exclusive online premiere of her feature debut, Baden Baden (2015), which runs December 2 - 31 2016 in the United States.Baden Baden“The female thyme plant gets rid of half her chromosomes to host the male chromosomes.”—Ana, White Turnips Make It Hard to SleepWomen give generously, as illustrated by the reproductive system of an aromatic herb, hosting others who might not survive, would otherwise languish. The quote comes courtesy of Rachel Lang's second short film and is applicable to her nascent body of work, two shorts and one feature wherein: a young woman joins the army; another breaks up with her boyfriend; a third attempts to fix a bathtub. All are named Ana...

Curated subscription VOD service Mubi enters the Us theatrical marketplace with its premiere of Rachel Lang’s Baden Baden.

Curated streaming platform Mubi is to dip its toe into the North American theatrical marketplace with the Us premiere of Baden Baden, the feature debut by Belgian filmmaker Rachel Lang.

The film stars Salomé Richard as Ana, a fiercely independent and innately joyous heroine adrift in life and in search of human connection.

Baden Baden marks the third collaboration between Lang and Richard. Lang’s debut feature completes the trilogy which develops the character Ana through two short films, For You I Will Fight - which won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival - and White Turnips Make it Hard to Sleep.

Baden Baden opens on November 25 in New York at the Anthology Film Archives and in Los Angeles at the Arena Cinelounge Hollywood, followed by an exclusive digital release of all three of Lang...

Mubi is getting into the theatrical game. The curated streaming platform is making its way into the North American theatrical marketplace with their release of Rachel Lang’s “Baden Baden,” which the previously online-only outfit will open the film in New York and Los Angeles on November 25. The film will then be available exclusively on Mubi’s digital site.

The film marks the third collaboration between Lang and the superb young actress Salomé Richard and completes the trilogy which develops the character of Ana through two short films (including “For You I Will Fight” and “White Turnips Make it Hard to Sleep”). Lang said of the news, “It’s such an honor for me that my film is the first U.S. theatrical release for Mubi. The wonderful Mubi team worked incredibly well to release it in the U.K., and now they are doing the same for the U.

Rachel Lang’s debut about a dejected young Frenchwoman co-opted to help with some bathroom Diy is an unexpected treat

A twentysomething girl finds herself at a crossroads after failing conspicuously as a runner on a film production. She returns home to Strasbourg, and throws herself into the diversionary activity of converting her grandmother’s bathroom to an invalid-friendly walk-in shower. It’s hard to imagine a more unpromising premise. And yet this debut feature from French director Rachel Lang is an absolute treat. It combines genuine laugh-out-loud moments with a deftly handled slow reveal of the bruises left by Ana’s (Salomé Richard) past life and loves.

The structure is episodic, like a scrapbook of moments from Ana’s summer. Some are fleeting – we get an eloquently unappetising glimpse of a single shot of peas and carrots smothered in tomato ketchup. Others, like the awkward friendship between Ana and Gregoire,...

Salomé Richard beguiles as a young woman who drives back to her hometown after being humiliated at work

A very smart film from a very smart first-time feature director. Written and directed by 32-year-old Rachel Lang, Baden Baden has an easy swing, deceptively simple visual compositions and dreamlike narrative leaps. The story will hop-skip-jump to the scene after the one you might expect. It has the spirit of the New Wave, something that might interest Eric Rohmer or Agnès Varda.

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★★★☆☆ Rachel Lang's Baden Baden is a simple story of an aimless woman returning to her hometown and building a new shower stall for her grandmother. Not much else happens in terms of traditional plot, yet this arthouse oddity is an impossibly fragile and emotionally robust drama about identity, positioned on a razor's edge between comedy and melodrama. Baden Baden performs the rare trick of being simultaneously translucent, open, closed and opaque. It begins with a bold five-minute head-and-shoulders shot in the interior of a car, where Ana (Salomé Richard) is observed driving around in circles.