Second Thoughts (2022)
When Marie’s boyfriend proposes to her in front of his entire family, she doesn't know what to say and flees to the countryside to think it over alone. But her thoughts accompany her. They sit around her in flesh and blood: Her mother pesters her with baby names, exboyfriends climb down trees and a woman in a sari narrates her life in poems. Her would-be fiancé eventually joins her, clashing his own luggage of thoughts with hers. But what if you show your thoughts to each other? How much honesty can a relationship take? In her first feature, director Zora Rux, an apprentice of Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, tells a surrealistic story of the search for one’s true self in poetic tableaus.
Director:
Zora Rux
Writer:
Zora Rux
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Elisa Plüss as Marie |
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Thomas Fränzel as Julian |
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Henriette Confurius as Natalia |
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Lola Klamroth as Louise |
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Sebastian Schneider as Henrik |
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Peter Miklusz as David |
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Judith van der Werff as Marie's mother |
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Jörg Kleinau as Julian's father |
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Laurenz Laufenberg as Salesman |
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Wenka von Mikulicz as Woman in indian costume |
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Paul Lux as Gepo |
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Pablo Grant as |
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Konstantin Bez as |
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Valentin Erb as |
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Romina Küper as |
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Gina Stiebitz as |
| Camera | Jesse Mazuch | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Henning Stöve | Editor |
| Sound | Ben Roessler | Music |
| Writing | Zora Rux | Screenplay |
| Editing | Zora Rux | Editor |
| Production | Leonie Minor | Producer |
| Production | Roxana Richters | Producer |
| Sound | Jonathan Ritzel | Music |
| Editing | Martin Herold | Editor |
| Editing | Kalle Boman | Editor |
| Production | Zora Rux | Producer |
| Directing | Zora Rux | Director |
| Production | Fred Burle | Producer |