You are on your way south and have a lot of emotional baggage with you: Alexandra Maria Lara and Birgit Minichmayr show a desperate sadness.
Berlin – Fathers shape their children for life. And children are probably looking for love and recognition from their fathers for just as long. That doesn’t change when they’re grown up either.
This search is the basic theme of Nana Neul’s film “Daughters”. The focus of the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by the Hamburg writer Lucy Fricke are two almost 40-year-old friends who have to go on a trip to Switzerland. Bettina and Martha are supposed to bring Martha’s father there to die at his request. Only: He doesn’t have an appointment there and actually wants to visit his childhood sweetheart.
The trip becomes an emotional adventure for everyone. The two main actresses Alexandra Maria Lara and Birgit Minichmayr impress with their fine play and an almost desperate sadness. Josef Bierbichler is also there.
Daughters, Germany 2021, 121 min., FSK from 12, by Nana Neul, with Alexandra Maria Lara, Birgit Minichmayr, Josef Bierbichler, Giorgio Colangeli dpa
