Intricately braiding the lives of four generations of girls, living (if they’re not dying) through different eras on the same forbidding farmstead in northern Germany, Mascha Schilinski has constructed a haunted-house story of unique and devastating proportions. Formally rigorous but not austere, the novelistic film comprises four narrative strands, each already rife with its own enigmas, ambiguities and floating shifts in perspective; woven together in largely impressionistic order, they begin to reflect and resemble each other in complex, telling ways. (Read the full review by Guy Lodge.)
