14 January 2015

Summers Downstairs



Tom Sommerlatte : 2015
Im Sommer wohnt er unten

Matthias is the younger of the two Landberg brothers. While his brother David has followed in their father's footsteps on the path to success, Matthias lives his life far away from ambitions and career options. He shares his family's holiday home on the French Atlantic coast with his girlfriend Camille and her 6-year-old son Étienne from a previous relationship. Together they idle about day after day. When David and his wife Lena arrive with the intention of spending their holiday in the family home. Matthias's carefree days are over in a beat, David's presence changes everything. Not ten minutes after his arrival, David insists on sleeping in the room Matthias and Camille have made their own and demands that Étienne is sent to his father, as he wants peace and quiet. Matthias quietly complies because "what David wants, David gets" has been a rule for him from an early age on. Camille, however, disgusted by David's bossy behaviour, and unwilling to accept his air of entitlement and superiority, secretly concocts a plan to rearrange the pecking order between the two brothers. Tom Sommerlatte's feature debut received the FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective Special Mention when it premiered in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section at Berlin International Film Festival 2015.

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