Beat Beat Heart (2016)
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Lana Cooper, Saskia Vester, Till Wonka, Aleksandar Radenkovic, Christin Nichols
A devoted romantic’s love-waiting routine is upended when her newly separated mother moves in and embraces app-based dating.
The story
Kerstin wholeheartedly believes in true love and has spent months waiting for her ex-boyfriend, Thomas, to return, retreating into sweet memories of their relationship. Her routine is disrupted when her mother, Charlotte, arrives unexpectedly and wants to move into Kerstin’s shared apartment. In her mid-50s, Charlotte has recently split from her partner and has nowhere else to go. The two women handle longing very differently: encouraged by Kerstin’s roommate, Charlotte starts meeting new men through a dating app and bringing them home. Kerstin’s romantic daydreams are increasingly interrupted by the realities of her mother’s new approach to love.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
A playful romantic has been waiting for months for the return of the great love of her life—when her newly separated mother suddenly moves in with her in the midst of a midlife crisis, confronting her with modern ideas about love and life lessons as she searches for herself. Kerstin wholeheartedly believes in true love and has been waiting for months for her ex-boyfriend Thomas to return. She has made herself comfortable in sugary-sweet memories when her mother, Charlotte, suddenly turns up at her door wanting to move into her shared apartment. In her mid-50s, Mom accidentally split up with her partner and now doesn’t know where to go. That the two women could hardly deal with their longing more differently becomes clear at the latest when Charlotte, inspired by Kerstin’s roommate, promptly starts meeting new men through an app and bringing them straight home. Kerstin’s cozy daydreams are now interrupted ever more often by reality, in which true love has become a hopeless game of chance.
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