At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...
Malick is back with a waltz of a movie that wants to sweep you off your feet and drag you around from broody relationship to broody motif. Whimsy is dialed up to eleven in this intersecting love triangle tangle. If you're a die hard Malick fan you might still enjoy it but, if he's been slowly (or rapidly) losing you in recent years, then this will just have you scoffing into a motif of billowing curtains or an agency-less girlfriend with expensive if scanty clothes a find out more...
