Everyone Else (2010)

Chris (Lars Eidinger) is a tall, gangly small-time architect, and Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr) is a tough, pretty music publicist for a band called the Shames. Together this German couple is vacationing in Italy, and from the start, everything seems off-kilter. Gitti has a tense encounter with Chris' niece, and the couple never seems to be on the same page at the same moment.

Things get worse when an architect colleague of Chris's turns up; Chris wants both to avoid and impress the more successful man, though Gitti sees this more clearly than Chris does.

Ade films in a grungy, realistic style much like Cassavetes, and though the film has drawn comparisons to Antonioni, Bergman and Rossellini, it lacks the "bigger picture" feel of those films; Ade moves closer and uses her camera to depict alienation, as if this stuff happens every day. And it does.

Viewed at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival.