The Forest for the Trees
Here’s Maren Ade’s first feature, The Forest for the Trees (Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen in the original German), made in 2003. Though low in budget – it was a film-school project – it instantly established her as one to watch. The remarkable thing is that in the two decades since, Ade has made only two more films, 2009’s Everyone Else and 2016’s Toni Erdmann, the one that made her name internationally and won her an Oscar nomination (she lost out to Asgar Farhadi, who isn’t a bad name to lose out to). So what’s she been up to all this time? Producing, is the answer. Ade’s name turns up all over the … Read more