Manager: Oliver Treiner
artists: Lou de Laage, Raphael Personnaz, Esther Garrel
Year: 2022
Premiere: 18 August 2023
★★
Although the story is told by its protagonist from a more or less present time, the action of ‘Little Coincidences’ It begins in 1989, hours before the fall of the Berlin Wall.. 17-year-old Julia decides to escape her boarding school in Amsterdam and go to Berlin with her friends. Luck plays a decisive role. Passport falling out of the bag. What would have happened if his friend hadn’t noticed? This is one of the narrative lines: they arrive in Berlin, enjoy new freedoms, stay in the German city. The other is cut in a short time. Julia returns home to get the passport and meets one of the teachers. With this option, there will be no trip to the Berlin wall and the life of the young woman will be very different.
A little chaotic at first, ‘Little Coincidences’ explores two existences filled with situations, encounters, love affairs, family disputes and decisions as tough as they are different. What was and what could beWhat has happened and perhaps what has been desired is exchanged. Several films have been made based on a similar idea. This flows correctly with the player Lou de Laâge as anchor and reference point. The film would have been hard to get off the ground if it weren’t for the ability to go from one take to the next, from one existence to the next, with tremendous simplicity in contrast recordings.