Everyone Else

Gitti and Chris are a young couple spending a summer holiday at his parents' house on Sardinia. He is an architect, she works in advertising, and together they have built a private world of rituals and jokes that only functions when they are alone. Their equilibrium is disturbed when they meet Hans and Sana, a couple who seem more confident, more successful and more settled. Chris knew Hans during his architecture studies. As the two couples grow closer, Gitti and Chris begin to see themselves through the other pair's eyes, and the differences between them turn into friction that both try to manage in their own way, with consequences for how they understand each other.

Maren Ade wrote and directed the film, her second feature, which came seven years before Toni Erdmann. Birgit Minichmayr plays Gitti and Lars Eidinger plays Chris, with Hans-Jochen Wagner and Nicole Marischka as Hans and Sana. It was produced by Dirk G. Engelhardt, Janine Jackowski and Ade herself for Komplizen Film, with WDR, ARD and ARTE among the backers.

The film earned roughly 3 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.6/10 from about 4,300 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6/10 from a much smaller group of 87 voters. A critics' rating of 7.6/10 from 42 reviews places it clearly above those audience scores.