
After a failed attempt at working on a foreign film set, 26 year-old Ana returns to her hometown of Strasbourg. Over the scorching summer that follows, she decides to replace her grandmother's bathtub with a walk-in shower, eat peas and carrots with ketchup, drive a Porsche, harvest plums, lose her driver's license, sleep with her best friend and get back together with her ex. In short, over this particular summer, Ana tries to get her life together.... (Full plot summary below)
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After a failed attempt at working on a foreign film set, 26 year-old Ana returns to her hometown of Strasbourg. Over the scorching summer that follows, she decides to replace her grandmother's bathtub with a walk-in shower, eat peas and carrots with ketchup, drive a Porsche, harvest plums, lose her driver's license, sleep with her best friend and get back together with her ex. In short, over this particular summer, Ana tries to get her life together.
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| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlLang is uncommonly assured for a first-time director, capturing her scenes in fluid master takes, rarely cutting from one character to the next, letting things unfold at the pace of in-the-moment human feeling. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThis film teases and eludes. It's Continental drift. But few films so make us want to drift with them. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyIt’s very fresh and often very funny stuff, communicated in a direct, unforced style. |
| Another GazeBryony WhiteBaden Baden makes present the subtle, often painful, ache of finding your way and keeping afloat. |
| Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonIt will drive some viewers up the wall, but fans will feel the rush of discovering a unique new director and, in Richard,a gawky yet captivating screen presence. |
| Screen InternationalJonathan RomneyBaden Baden is an intimate, at times seemingly whimsical narrative that appears to drift almost free-associatively from episode to episode. But it’s unified by a distinctive humour and intelligence, crisp visuals, and Richard’s intensely charismatic presence. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawIt is such a beguiling performance from Richard, natural, unaffected, unselfconscious, you find herself rooting for Ana, although what form success might take for her is a mystery. Very impressive work from Lang. |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonWriter/director director Rachel Lang fleshes out two acclaimed short films to make her big screen debut with this fun, freewheeling rite of passage story. |
| Observer (UK)Wendy IdeLang has a delightfully off-kilter approach that renders familiar scenes and plot points suddenly fresh. I look forward to seeing more of it. |
| Sunday Independent (Ireland)Aine O'ConnorIt doesn't linger too long, but the taste it does leave is good. |