My Wife Cries | 2026 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Where Did Our Love Go?: Schanalec Deconstructs the Break-Up Drama
True to form, or rather, anti-form, Angela Schanelec’s latest exercise, My Wife Cries (Meine Frau weint), aims to defy the naturalistic approach to her theme and subject. This time around, a vaguely related collection of characters united metaphorically by a construction site find Mercury is in full-swing Retrograde as relates to their thinly defined relationships. To exemplify this, they all talk about it. A lot. A key figure of the New Berlin school filmmakers, who actively embrace anti-naturalism in their approaches, Schanelec’s film’s often excel with this approach, usually assisted by limited dialogue.… Read the rest
