Film about polyamory: A little bit of a joke on each other

Too much does not happen in the lives of Maria (Paula Knüpling) and Niels (Maximilian Hildebrandt). Basically nothing at all. Niels, dark blond curly and probably not yet 30, works in the café; Maria, his girlfriend and more or less the same age, has broken off her studies and now sprayed Berlin S-Bahn cars - a hobby, but not a passion.

We do not know what these two proto-millennia are all about, just as we know the biographies behind their idleness. But both can be speculated: reasonably stable childhood somewhere in Germany, then moving to Berlin, obtaining sexual maturity and finally only in a relationship, then landed in boredom. They do not want to do anything, except to do it with each other - or with somebody else or somebody else and at the same time with each other.

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Sometimes desires go through their bodies, sometimes they have an opinion on something: Maria, for example, thinks art students are stupid, Niels knows a bit about conservatories, both find rubber dinghies. Otherwise they have - and almost programmatically - little stubbornness, little meat around the skeleton of the figures.

A few sunny summer weeks, hand-made Kreuzberg icons and a staff that invokes its dumb right to be uninteresting. As so classic for many German newcomer films, the debut to debut in the moods of the late twenties, in the early thirties eingseismieren into it, after 90 minutes, ideally, to have determined that it is not so good, but not really bad goes - as probably since the beginning of the mood history.

Thomas Moritz Helm does not put another focus on his film debut "Heute oder morgen" - in his film about bored millennials there is at most an emphasis shift. Keyword: polyamory, the love of three and what that means.

Sex, swimming pool, blue light

Maria and Niels Chloë (Tala Gouveia) meet in the suburban train. She's from England, is currently writing her PhD on urban development and society. She looks more adult than the other two. Everyone kisses everyone, and the other one watches, then they kiss in threesome and have sex, and we watch. But we hardly see anything at all: the scene is shaded, plays at night in an open-air swimming pool they broke into, because you do that when you think about what you do at night, if you want to have sex that nobody should see, but for those who would have been at home, would not have broken into an outdoor pool, for which you would not have done what you are doing.

Then the police arrive, the blue light brightens up the scene, but it's long gone.

This scene is symptomatic of "Today or Tomorrow": aiming at shady subtlety, but only playing at night in an outdoor pool - like hundreds of other intimate scenes before.

"Today or tomorrow"
D 2019
Screenplay and direction: Thomas Moritz Helm
Performers: Paula Knüpling, Maximilian Hildebrandt, Tala Gouveia, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Leonard Kunz
Production: CASQUE film
Rental: Salzgeber & Company Media
Length: 93 minutes
FSK: from 16 years
Start: 19 September 2019

To find your way around the geometry of love in three requires a willingness to compromise - everything shifts to new patterns: jealousy, trust, responsibility, power. So the focal points that helmet puts. This is what the episode is all about and discussing it all. And a pregnancy, a threesome for three.

A compromise, one has the feeling, is also this film itself: For an interesting analysis of the emotional tension in the love trio his characters are ultimately too stale and too lethargic. And for the open view into the erotic organization of the relationship, the bodies are simply too tame. But once it comes to a nice gesture. Chloë kisses Maria on the couch, her hand touches - past the neck of the kissed - Niels neck. Desire and dislocation.

In the video: The trailer for "Today or Tomorrow"

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Unfortunately, "Today or Tomorrow" only relies on the power of such images for this one time. That polyamory is a difficult concept, especially when it should prevail against others, that it requires some discussion and the one or the other frustration, everyone should be able to guess even without this movie. After all, it does not prevail for the first time today.