The first thing you have to know is that the Brandls make no budget movies. So the film works within those budgetary restraints. But is is incredibly well made. Just the composition of the images and the story telling show that Günter and Monika are actually very profficient at film making. This film is one of the very few films I have watched in the last years with a storyline that takes so many twists and turns that it is actually suprising in a good way. It all appears very surreal but it makes sense in the end. Monika really gives the performance of a lifetime and I would probably listen to Meldody Baier reciting the phone book.