«Lara Jenkins: ordinary demands

Le Regard Libre N° 74 - Fanny Agostino

Special feature: «The figure of the musician in cinema».»

In the elitist world of musicians, does austerity go hand in hand with high standards? With Lara Jenkins, Jan-Ole Gerster follows the daily life of an embittered 60-year-old in search of redemption. On her birthday, her son Viktor is about to give a recital to present his new compositions. At odds with her offspring - or rather, in interstellar freeze - this stepmother decides to buy the twenty or so remaining tickets and makes it her mission to distribute them before the event begins. Can the Jenkins be reconciled?

Lara (Corinna Harfouch) est une femme cultivée. Dans son appartement, un mur recouvert de vinyles. L’autre, de livres. De cette ancienne pianiste solitaire, on ne saura pourtant jamais rien de ses pensées, de ses envies. Une décision hâtive