Everyone Else

2009 [GERMAN]

Drama / Romance

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 62% · 42 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 4282 4.3K

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Plot summary

While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.

Director

Maren Ade Photo
Maren Ade

Top cast

Paula Hartmann Photo
Paula Hartmann as Rebecca
Lars Eidinger Photo
Lars Eidinger as Chris
Atef Vogel Photo
Atef Vogel as Urlauber
Mira Partecke Photo
Mira Partecke as Urlauberin
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1.11 GB
1280*690
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr   de  
24 fps
2 hr 3 min
Seeds 2
2.06 GB
1920*1036
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr   de  
24 fps
2 hr 3 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by JohnnyBGood2 7 / 10

It's all about love

Maren Ade has set a German "Kammerspiel" in sunny Sardinia; a Dogma-looking, Eric Rohmer-inspired account of a young couple on vacation in a big, beautiful house - and their reluctant, but increasingly blatant attempts at penetrating each other's bodies and souls. She loves him. Does he love her?"Alle Anderen" is not pitch-perfect (and has been received with varied reactions - from a posh Jury Grand Prix in Berlin '09 to fairly feeble reviews). Indeed, it's a bit too long for its own good and strangely uneven at times. But at one point, you just surrender to the subtle narrative and the complex, fully fleshed out characters (needless to say, Birgit Minichmayr and Lars Eidinger are phenomenal in the leads. Their performances look so simple, so easy-to-pull-off).Maren Ade has accomplished the difficult stunt of putting the audience in the very same room, at the same intense wave-length, as these searching, anxious people. She allows us to eavesdrop to cunning conversations, to witness a constant (if not always visible) emotional struggle. And she keeps a shrewd surprise for the very end, suddenly pulling the rug from under our feet, forcing us to re-evaluate everything we've seen and heard up until this point.The sound of silence can be damaging. Tears and laughter can be emancipating. Because in the end, it's all about love.
Reviewed by vitaleralphlouis 6 / 10

Definitely NOT for the Blackberry mentality.

You'll need an attention span greater than 4 seconds to enjoy this movie. The entire story focuses on a young unmarried German couple on a business/vacation in Sardinia, interacting with a very few other people. They talk to each other, paw each other, consider the other person's flaws and assets; magnetically in love and pondering the long term. It would serve no purpose adding many details, except.....Gitti is showing lots of leg in the opening shots and --- not to give away the plot, but --- the legs remain in view for 110 minutes of this 119 minute movie.The sex theme is entirely hetro-sexual -- a refreshing change in 2010 and why we chose this one over "Sex and the City 2." Also good was the exciting and wonderful man-above scene, normally maligned in movies in preference to the preferred slamming the girl against a wall method.A good 6/10 movie but no reason why this picture ought to have received any awards or undue praise. The 3rd German movie we've seen in 2010, the other two (Woman of Berlin, North Face) were better.
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