Agnes (2016)
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Odine Johne, Stephan Kampwirth, Sonja Baum, Walter Hess, Berit Karla Menze, Oliver Bürgin, Maximilian Scheidt
A writer's attempt to capture his younger lover in a novel begins to blur the boundary between fiction and their relationship.
The story
Forty-one-year-old nonfiction writer Walter begins an affair with Agnes, a much younger, aloof student. Agnes persuades Walter to write a novel about her, hoping to discover how her personality affects him. As he writes, however, the boundary between the story and their relationship begins to blur. Agnes comes to feel that Walter has rendered her as an idealized figure and romanticized their relationship. Increasingly, she begins to behave as he portrays her in the novel, complicating the relationship between the real Agnes and Walter’s written version of her.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The 41-year-old nonfiction writer Walter begins an affair with Agnes, a much younger, aloof student. She persuades him to write a novel about her so she can find out how her personality affects him. Fiction and reality soon begin to blur: Agnes realizes that Walter portrays her in an idealized way in the novel and romanticizes their relationship; increasingly, she behaves as Walter describes her in the story. When Agnes becomes pregnant, Walter reacts differently from what she had hoped, and she breaks up with him. After the miscarriage, they initially get back together. When Agnes stipulates that the novel should end with her suicide, it remains unclear to the viewer whether her death by freezing is merely fictional or also happens in reality. In the end, Walter is alone again.
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