Three

Director's Statement

Love, work, daily life, and death are intertwined and formed anew in this story, fused in a different way. It is a film about closeness and distance, loneliness and peer pressure, about the dangers of intimacy and the temptation of the unfamiliar. THREE revolves around the longings, hopes, enigmas, and contradictions of three people approaching middle age, who have had to pose some fundamental questions about the so-called „successful“ lives they live. What does it mean today to live „properly“ – in a social, emotional, political, or private way? THREE is an attempt – at once tender and drastic, as ironic as it is serious – to describe the feeling that people have today as life brings them further away from birth and ever closer to death. The story telling methods used are sometimes elliptic, often fragmented, and then very strict, each one necessitated by the feeling being explored in each situation. In this way, the film investigates the condition of a generation that still – more or less doggedly – fights to depart from the patterns impressed upon them by their socialization.