Baden Baden

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Baden Baden

Released Nov 25, 2016

1h 34m

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After a job turns sour, Ana, who is in her mid-20s, returns to Strasbourg to be close to her beloved grandmother and best friend. While juggling a hopeless affair, a self-set task and a farewell, she looks for her place in the world.

Sheri Linden

Los Angeles Times

Writer-director Lang explored the character with Richard in two shorts, and there's a lived-in feel to the portrait that emerges in the visually adventurous "Baden Baden," which weaves darkly luminous fantasy imagery into Ana's mostly aimless hours.

Nov 24, 2016

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

"Baden Baden" does make a pertinent statement, one rare in movies today: that being ostensibly aimless in your mid-20s not only isn't the worst thing in the world, but it can also be kind of fun.

Nov 24, 2016

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Alan Scherstuhl

Village Voice

Lang is uncommonly assured for a first-time director, capturing her scenes in fluid master takes, rarely cutting from one character to the next, letting things unfold at the pace of in-the-moment human feeling.

Nov 22, 2016

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Vladan Petkovic

Cineuropa

A very interesting film on multiple levels, but what impresses the most coming from this first-time feature director [Rachel Lang] is how she balances and combines order and chaos, in terms of both subject matter and stylistic approach.

Sep 1, 2020

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Sarah Cullen

Film Ireland Magazine

In its own quiet way, [it] feels like a celebration of the vocation-less of society. Ana may be restless and unsure of herself but she is also keen to work when she can find it, deeply caring of her friends and family, and eager to learn new skills.

Oct 14, 2016

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Patrick Gamble

CineVue

An impossibly fragile and emotionally robust drama about identity, positioned on a razor's edge between comedy and melodrama. Baden Baden performs the rare trick of being simultaneously translucent, open, closed and opaque.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 3, 2016

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While there have been several films to come out in the last few years to center around the listlessness/anguish of being a contemporary twenty-something, none of them approach the avant garde like this French movie does. Rachel Lang, making an outstanding feature-directorial debut here, gives a very valued aesthetic to the movie that never feels derivative, and always feels organic. It's a fully immersive film that's often fun and occasionally heartbreaking, forgoing a traditional plot, yet concentrating on other elements that make it more illuminating a character study. Using an editing style that is as elliptic as it is organic, and effortless camera work that augments the material, Baden Baden is truly passionate filmmaking, and includes dreamy imagery that's among the year's most memorable. Certain to be one of the 2016's most slept-on great films, and the most ethical movie for Generation Y since Francis Ha.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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After a job turns sour, Ana, who is in her mid-20s, returns to Strasbourg to be close to her beloved grandmother and best friend. While juggling a hopeless affair, a self-set task and a farewell, she looks for her place in the world.

Director: Rachel Lang
Screenwriter: Rachel Lang
Distributor: MUBI
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 25, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 17, 2017
Runtime: 1h 34m