EVERYONE ELSE (ALLE ANDEREN) New Lights

The couple experiencing a mutuaI crack -up has long been a staple of film – Antonioni, Bergman and Chabrol, to name only a few, have mode it a central topic of their art — but it’s always an exciting event to see such a well-explored theme reinvigorated with the kind of freshness that the superb young German writer/director Maren Ade rings to her second feature. Vacationing in sun-drenched Sardinia, fledgling architect Chris (Lars Eidinger) and publicist Gilli (Birgit Minichmoyr) are the opposite of the island’s reliably steady climate: tempest-tossed, downright nasty one moment, thoroughly into each other the next and, of course, ready to crack. Ade, who won awards for the film, is less interested in drama than in the real ways in which intelligent and apparently strong adults are vulnerable to the vagaries of jealousy, insecurity a the quiet disturbances of modern life.