The Dreamed Path

Many years ago, they were a couple. In 1984, Theres and Kenneth travelled through Greece together, paying their way as street musicians. The carefree happiness ends abruptly when Kenneth hears of his mother’s accident and immediately returns to his English homeland. When the two meet again in Germany, the magic of the past is gone. Thirty years later in Berlin: the actress Ariane leaves her husband David, a renowned anthropologist. From his new apartment located close to the Berlin central train station, David can see a homeless person. When Theres passes the man on the street, she realizes: the homeless man is Kenneth. After an exchange of glances, she passes by wordlessly.

“Angela Schanelec’s The Dreamed Path is one of the best films of the year, a film about healing and change, both of which are invisibly stripped in the images” Patrick Holzapfel for MUBI