Everyone Else

Everyone Else (Alle Anderen, 2009) is a German relationship drama you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Maren Ade. Chris and Gitti are on holiday in Sardinia — he's an architect, she works in advertising — and for a while the vacation just looks like a vacation.

Then other couples show up. Settled people with children and certainty and answers to every question that Chris doesn't have. He starts measuring Gitti against them, quietly, without quite realising he's doing it. She notices. Lars Eidinger and Birgit Minichmayr play two people who make each other worse in extremely recognisable ways.

Minichmayr picked up the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 2009 Berlinale, and the film itself took the Grand Jury Prize. Maren Ade later made Toni Erdmann — this earlier film is sharper, colder, and harder to shake. Watch Everyone Else (2009) online on iFILM.