Homesick

Erwa gets most of the credit for this with his cagey plotting, but he couldn't have pulled it off without veteran actress Tatja Seibt as the woman upstairs; her blunt features suggest a harsh intent but can also soften in vulnerability.

A modest heartbreaker.

The film goes so far out of its way to avoid seeming lurid or melodramatic it ends up being almost emotionally incomprehensible in its obliqueness.

Sewitsky's strenuous attempts to make an unsensational and non-judgemental film on a weighty subject result in a film that throws its back out.