My Brother, My Love

My Brother, My Love (German: Glaubenberg) is a 2018 Swiss drama film directed by Thomas Imbach. The film had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2018.[1] It received the Zurich Film Prize 2018.

My Brother, My Love
Theatrical release poster
GermanGlaubenberg
Directed byThomas Imbach
Screenplay by
  • Thomas Imbach
  • Arnaud De Cazes
Story byThomas Imbach
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyThomas Imbach
Edited byThomas Imbach
Music byLukas Langenegger
Production
companies
Distributed byFrenetic Films
Release dates
  • 6 August 2018 (2018-08-06) (Locarno)
  • 22 November 2018 (2018-11-22) (Switzerland)
Running time
114 minutes
CountrySwitzerland
LanguageGerman

Premise

Sixteen-year-old Lena feels more attracted to her brother Noah than is usual among siblings. She tries to distract herself with Noah's friend Enis, but the impossible love becomes an obsession. She loses herself in daydreams and soon lives more in her imagination than in the real world. Finally she struggles to confess her love to her brother. However, the brother, frightened, rejects her. For Lena, a journey into the unknown begins.

Cast
  • Zsofia Körös as Lena
  • Francis Meier as Noah
  • Milan Peschel as father
  • Bettina Stucky as mother
  • Morgane Ferru as Julia
  • Nikola Šošic as Enis
  • İlayda Akdoğan as Meriem
  • Gonca de Haas as Ebru
  • Erol Afşin as Mustafa

Background

My Brother, My Love is inspired by Imbach's biography, albeit strongly fictionalized. It is about a love that is filled with taboos in our society, about the sister's longing for her brother, which can only be lived as a delusion. In the film, Imbach focuses on the time of adolescence, when this passion first seeks fulfilment and has a thoroughly "healthy" origin.

Reception

Björn Hayer of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote: "The boundaries between reality and wishful thinking are blurred in a sophisticated narrative structure, visually congenially implemented - Lena's perspective and her thoughts alone carry this extraordinary work".[2]

Kino-Zeit stated: "A remarkably fearless film, a highlight in Locarno 2018".[3]

References
  1. "Glaubenberg". Locarno Festival. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  2. Hayer, Bjorn (21 November 2018). ""Glaubenberg" – Bilder finden für die unsichtbaren Wunden der Seele" ["Glaubberg" – find pictures for the invisible wounds of the soul]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  3. Doerksen, Katrin. "Glaubenberg (2018)". Kino-Zeit (in German). Retrieved 15 August 2020.
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