At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

A collective farm in disarray. A messianic agitator. And lots of mud & rain, all in Bela Tarr's trademark style: arty black & white cinematography, long slow takes, tracking shots & zooms. The style recalls Tarkovsky but the sensibility is completely different, relentlessly downbeat, squalid, cynical and bleakly, grimly comic. So you get a doctor drinking himself to death, a cat being tortured and a suicidal little girl taking rat poison, all depicted in slow real time takes. One find out more...