“Authenticity comes with a lack of budget”
Photography has been Karl’s favourite pastime for years, and when he invites Lea into his improvised ‘bathroom laboratory’, she is impressed by his ‘light magic’. But is that enough to win her heart? A dramatic scene at the end of the film shows them sitting side by side on a bench; the space between Karl and Lea is physically so narrow, but actually it’s huge… unbridgeable. Director Bernd Sahling: “You see how she’s looking at him, he’s looking at her… and then he just stands up and walks away without saying a word. That’s how love sickness works.”