Crafted from events in his mother’s life, master filmmaker Barbet Schroeder (
Barfly,
Reversal of Fortune) revisits his decades-long cinematic examination of moral culpability and the complexities of human nature. In
Amnesia, Martha, a mysterious German expat (iconic Marthe Keller,
Marathon Man,
Dark Eyes) conducts her solitary life far from Ibiza’s 1990s club scene. Having left the
Heimat before the War, she refuses to speak her native tongue, drive a VW, or play the musical instrument she mastered as a girl. Her young neighbor Jo, an aspiring club DJ (Max Riemelt,
The Wave, MVFF 2008), begins to break through her barriers with his boyish curiosity and growing desire until the arrival of Jo’s father (Bruno Ganz in a masterful performance) calls Martha’s past and present into question with surprising and revelatory results.
Amnesia is a profound cross-generational exploration of historical memory and morality, set against the stark and spectacular Ibizan landscape. Unforgettable!
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