The Ordinaries

»A feature film debut from Sophie Linnenbaum, this German science fiction film is a delightfully bizarre embrace of cinematic conventions.«

Filmink

»This fanciful comedy occupies a rarefied conceptual zone somewhere between Pirandello and Charlie Kaufman«.

Screen Daily

One of the fascinating tasks of science fiction film is the creation of a new world which is at best a foreshadowing of the social and technological development of our reality. Sophie Linnenbaum creates a fantastic world that is basically completely familiar to us. The 16-year-old Paula lives in a film studio. We experience familiar scenes of film shootings of large elaborate scenes with extras in the background, moving through images to provide a magnificent backdrop for the stars. Only in »The Ordinaries« is it not a dream world that is created, it is an actual dream world. The backdrops are the world, the characters are the population of that world. Paula dreams of making it to the main character one day. Not in film, but in life. But life is film. There are cliffhangers, slow motion and class struggles. But that takes place between the outtakes and the main characters. Almost like real life.