We Used to Be Cool2016

Director
Marie Kreutzer

Acters

Vicky Krieps (Stella)
Pia Hierzegger (Ines)
Pheline Roggan (Mignon)
Marcel Mohab (Markus)
Manuel Rubey (Chris)
Andreas Kiendl (Luis)

Three couples who are friends decide to all become parents at the same time.

Film follows three young couples; Stella and Markus, Ines and Chris, Mignon and Luis, members of today’s got-everything-except-a-purpose generation. Equipped with the latest gadgets they live safe in their free range, fair trade, Apple-equipped, city centre apartments. But with all their material needs covered and never having suffered from want, their state of mind is the big issue. Stella’s the first to find the ‘solution’: she gets pregnant. The others quickly follow suit and these adult children find life is suddenly all too real. In a mixture of subtle and broad humour, touching moments and genuine observation, Mignon learns feeding your child only bio and boycotting nappies leads to domestic unpleasantness (her range of designer baby clothes proves a flop, too); Ines, now the mother of daughter Elvis, throws Chris out, whereupon he moves into his car and embarks on an affair with Stella, while she and Markus eventually find happiness is a bicycle repair shop in the countryside.

“Enjoyable, well-acted, often funny and with a good sense of pacing.” – Kalafudra

“Excellently observed and staged, especially in the scenes from everyday life.” – Kino Zeit

“With great dialogues, deep thoughts and a matching soundtrack, Kreutzer talks in a very amusing way about the problems that a modern couple is confronted with. An extremely agile ensemble carries the film. The director created a successful generational portrait.” – WolframHannemann.de