This is the 23rd film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.
Judith is a doctor who lives and works in Berlin. She's told that she's
inherited a house from her father in Austria. This confuses her, because she
was adopted as a young child and has no memories of a family in Austria. She
travels to Austria with her husband. It's a large luxurious house in a small
village.
What surprises her is that everyone knows her. They all address her as Judith,
as if she were an old friend. The village is run on matriarchal principles.
The men all have to do what they're told. Judith wants to sell the house and
return to Germany as quickly as possible, but the women in the village
encourage her to stay.
I enjoyed all of the film until the last ten minutes. Strange things happen at
the end that make no sense. I talked briefly to my friends in the cinema, and
I seem to be the only one who disliked the ending. My friends said things
like,
"It's a very good film, so you don't need to understand everything". I
disagree. The tension and suspense slowly builds throughout the film, only to
fall flat due to an illogical ending. I walked out of the cinema with a sour
taste in my mouth.
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