Sometime in August
2009 · 92 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 357 VOTES · DIR. Sebastian Schipper
Overview
Thomas and Hanna, a deliriously happy couple in their late 30s, buy an old house in the country with plans to fix it up over the summer. Hanna is looking forward to their time together – so when Thomas invites his older brother, Friedrich, who is deeply depressed over the failure of both his business and his marriage, to join them, she is disappointed by the intrusion. Easygoing, charming, and talkative, Thomas seeks to counterbalance the cloudier mood with an impetuous frenzy of activity, but Hanna retreats into sullenness and retaliates by bringing in her nubile young godchild Augustine until things smooth themselves out. Augustine’s youthful sexiness has anything but a soothing impact on Thomas, however, whose adolescent impulses linger just below the surface.
Dialogue Timeline — 622 lines
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00:02:00 On the land a house and a garage are built.
00:07:35 The white one, you know? Will you do that?
00:10:06 I thought, we ask whether he'd like to visit us for a week.
00:12:32 - Okay. - Okay?
00:15:55 - Come on in. I'll get Thomas ... - Fritze!
00:18:00 I told him that we want to tear down the wall.
00:20:10 I've started a therapy.
00:22:55 Beautiful.
00:25:01 Yes, perhaps therefore...
00:26:43 No problem.
00:28:27 One of the fir trees outside the house, a blue spruce.
00:30:08 Raises the working morale and we get a fireplace.
00:33:06 You prefer eating meat, because you're so fond of plants.
00:35:47 That may be so.
00:37:18 For this half luxury we won't get crooked
00:39:01 Go. Uhm...
00:45:43 It was almost a ton of pure copper. That's truly worth something.
00:50:53 I know that. Tomorrow, of course. But 36?
00:52:40 but he happens to be my father and I can't tell him
00:53:59 to jump off a tall house as soon as possible.
00:55:53 I'm serious. The publisher is planning a move.
01:03:32 - Let it be, Stine, I'll drive. - It's okay.
01:07:28 What is this a blatant lack of poetry?
01:08:59 I'm your wife after all? You're completely nuts!