Zweiohrküken

Saw the trailer for Zweiohrküken and Nora Tschirner’s got this expression she carries through the whole thing—this specific look that gets to you. The kind of face that could hold an entire film, and if this sequel is just ninety minutes of her wearing that look, I’m completely fine with it.

The plot’s straightforward relationship collapse. Ludo bumps into an old flame, Anna loses her mind with jealousy, which makes him want space, which he immediately regrets when Anna’s ex-boyfriend shows up. It’s soap opera drama at cinema scale—the petty territorial garbage that’s unbearable when you’re living it but completely absorbing to watch. GZSZ with a real budget.

There’s something about seeing other people’s relationships fall apart that makes you check your own. Not that you’re going to fix anything—you know you won’t. But you feel that specific moment when you realize the person next to you wants something you can’t give, or you want something from them that just isn’t there. That’s what the film’s selling and Nora just sits in it without overselling.

What I want is simple. Lots of Nora Tschirner. Good dialogue. Those expressions. And if there’s a nude scene, I’m not complaining—with her, obviously. Not Til Schweiger.