Aaccident or suicide attempt? While Nina (Maren Eggert, I am Your Man), a brilliant conductor in Munich, rehearsing for her next concert, she learns that her son Lars (Jona Levin Nicolai) has just survived a fall from a window at his school. Between three phone calls and almost without a word – the film lives up to its name – Nina takes him on a weekend to their vacation home in Belle-Île-en-Mer, in the hope of understanding what he happened to him, and reconnect. In this wilderness in the middle of winter, their already fragile relationship is pushed to the brink.
Follow me, I’m running away from you
Not a word evolves in a constant game of unsaid words, where silence is as important as dialogue. Lars tried to kill himself, but no one will tell. Both the mother and the father (Mehdi Nebbou, Karadec in the HPI series) spend most of their time on the phone and do not follow their son’s schooling, with whom communication seems broken: annoying ringtones and vibrators constantly disrupt any interaction. with Lars, who withdraws into an increasingly aggressive silence.
On this small Breton island, in the middle of winter, almost behind closed doors, a real chase will take place between the mother and the son, who leaves on multiple occasions to walk to the edge of the abyss of the archipelago – and whose The isolation worries Nina. Slovenian director Hanna Slak sometimes exaggerates the features of her characters and pulls the horn […] Read more
