Michael Klier : 2018
Family Idiots
Wanting to start a new life, 40-year-old Heli has found an institution in which she can put her younger, mentally disabled sister. Her three egocentric brothers have agreed to the plan and come to share their sister's final weekend at the house where they all grew up on the outskirts of Berlin. The eldest brother is a classical clarinettist who sticks doggedly to his views and is somewhat moralistic; then there's Bruno, the idealist research worker attracted by all things humanitarian and who listens to problems in order to find solutions; and finally there's the younger jazz musician brother who lives more of a bohemian lifestyle. The siblings have returned to their family home, where their two sisters still live, to celebrate the marriage of their eldest sibling, Heli. Of course, everyone still has their individual frustrations and neuroses, they clash sometimes, and they might not always agree, but they are brothers and sisters, and despite the years that have passed and their new adult lives, they find it so easy to be together, because they know each other so well, love each other and are as close as when they were children. And then there is Ginnie, their autistic little sister who they've always looked after. And yet, although their lives have largely focused on a constant desire to protect her, in a sense it is she who "shows" them. They find that the "baby of the litter" has turned into an unpredictable "monster". The fallout brings them closer together than they'd expected. Michael Klier's feature premiered in the New German Cinema section at Filmfest München 2018.
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