Lenz

The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchners novel fragment Lenz But he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more emotional territory a reunion with his estranged wife Natalie and their son Noah in the Swiss Alps Like his literary counterpart the modernday Lenz follows the Romantic motto Genius writes its own rules Against a background of kitsch global tourism provided by the authentic Zermatt locations Thomas Imbachs Lenz portrays an unconventional family and a man struggling between euphoria and desperation