“The most impressive film in the Berlin competition, Ade’s remarkable second feature… come[s] close to feeling like a defining portrait of an entire upper-middle-class generation — a movie that does for the ’00s what Richard Yates did for the 1950s.” (Scott Foundas, LA Weekly)

Winner of the Grand Jury and Best Actress awards at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, as well as the Best Director and FIPRESCI awards at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Everyone Else is rightly being hailed as the quintessential couple film of its generation. Like a contemporary Voyage to Italy, the film charts the febrile ups and downs of a young couple vacationing on the island of Sardinia. Chris (Lars Eidinger) is a lanky, slightly effeminate, pensive architect frustrated by his lack of success, while Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr whose incredible elasticity and belle laide looks have been met with Liv Ullman comparisons), is a music publicist with enough explosive energy to fuel the entire island. Gitti’s quirky and unsophisticated demeanor—she spends most of the film in either a bikini or satiny, salmon short shorts—challenges Chris’s sense of self and his upper middle-class ideals. When they run into Hans, a gregarious and self-assured architect friend of Chris’s, raw vulnerabilities and ebbing displays of shame, ridicule, uncertainty and hurt reach their volcanic peak. Exquisitely shot by Bernhard Keller (Longing), Everyone Else confirms Ade’s extraordinary talent and daring, which transcend clichés and expectations to produce results that are, at times, gut-wrenching, astonishing and painfully real. “Aided by actors who are fearless in exploring their own bodies and minds, a seemingly simple story is turned into an emotional tour de force that may be unparalleled in recent cinema” (Mark Peranson). With fewer North American distributors taking chances on European cinema, this limited run of one of the best films from