Dämonen

Frank, 38 years old and Katarina, 36, love each other and can no longer bear each other. Like a couple of emotional seismographs, their bodies begin to tremble as soon as they touch each other. They fly into the walls and the furniture, ready to uncap a volcano of violence or desire, sometimes both simultaneously. In a plastic bag, forgotten in the front hall, is an urn containing the ashes of Frank’s mother…
A magnificent quartet of actors, unanimously praised by the German press. Lars Eidinger (Frank) Brigitte Hobmeier (Katarina), Eva Meckbach (Jenna) and Tilman Strauss (Tomas), share the billing in this stupefying killing fields of emotional turmoil, a sort of remake of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, a bleak vaudeville from the country of Strindberg and Bergman, written by Lars Noren in 1983. With this new claustrophobic Scandinavian drama, the worthy heir of John Gabriel Borkman that received standing ovations at the Odeon in April, 2009, Ostermeier continues his exploration of the trials and tribulations and unrest in the lives of couples.