At Ellen's Age

At Ellen's Age (2010)

Genres - Comedy, Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Slice of Life  |   Run Time - 95 min.  |   Countries - Germany  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Mark Deming

A woman puts herself through some remarkable changes in this drama from director Pia Marais. Ellen (Jeanne Balibar) is a flight attendant edging into middle age who is growing disenchanted with her job and gets a wake-up call about her love life when her boyfriend Florian (Georg Friedrich) informs her he's been sleeping with another woman -- who is soon to make him a father. Florian proposes that he, Ellen and the other woman could all live together, which doesn't agree with Ellen, and after she stuffers a panic attack during a flight, Ellen walks away from her job. With no idea of what she wants to do with herself, Ellen almost randomly falls in with a radical animal rights group and embraces a new life of political action, drugs and free love. Has Ellen truly embraced a new life, or is she simply reacting to her anger over what happened to the old one? Im Alter Von Ellen (aka At Ellen's Age) was an official selection at the 2010 BFI London Film Festival.

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free-love, love, mid-life-crisis, woman