Director: Ulrike Kofler
Cast: Lavinia Wilson , Elyas M'Barek , Anna Unterberger , Lukas Spisser , Maria Hofstätter , Iva Höpperger , Fedor Teyml , Marta Manduca , Tina Haller , Klaus Huhle , Rita Waszilovics-C
Plot: A couple facing fertility issues finds their marriage tested on a vacation to a Sardinian resort, and the family next door only adds to the tension. Alice and Niklas are happy, they lack nothing - but a child. After several failed invitros, they go on a holiday to Sardinia to leave their wish for a child behind. Right there, everything they tried to repress resurfaces. A cheerful Tyrolean family moves directly into the neighboring house and seems to have everything that Alice and Niklas lack in life. An unforeseen incident changes their view on life, in which the most natural thing in the world does not avail.
My Movie Review: The movie is slowly going to the flow- beautiful as it moves in its own pace! What We Wanted knows what it wants as it bring us to its own world of marriage in trouble on vacation taking a time off to a beautiful calm escape place where they can resolve their issues! The scenic water scene is so vibrant and tense its cool to breath on the side even tough and not pleasant one of the memorable part of the film its experience that's arresting and effective:) What We Wanted is an Austrian drama film directed by Ulrike Kofler in his directorial debut! The movie, based on a story by Peter Stamm, was selected for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. What We Wanted is, no doubt, a difficult and uncomfortable watch with fertility issues are hard so more when you'll exhausted all your avenue to conceive!! It's amazingly filmed as beautiful images come to life with a great story that feels so personal and very tight it deserves to be seen as intimate moments come to play as fill your imagination!
Critic Reviews: What We Wanted isn't breaking any new ground for relationship dramas, but it's nonetheless watchable, reasonably involving and modestly insightful. Parents need to know that What We Wanted is an Austrian drama about a married couple who desperately want a biological child of their own. Couple deals with infertility; nudity, language, sex. Their last round of IVF didn't work, and the state doesn't fund further tries so the doctor suggests they take a vacation. Wilson underplays Alice’s increasing uncertainty and M’Barek are convincing as a loving, supportive couple and as one where that support erodes as it endures its most severe stress test. Compact...intimate...melodramatic editor-turned-first-time director Kofler keeps the tension on simmer and gradually draws us into the most intimate rifts marriages can face. It's a handsome, sensitive entry in the genre - one that treats its internally bruised characters with the care of a patient, kindly therapist. You know the score, and the widening of the rift between them works as a dramatic ticking-clock, communicated effectively and often subtly by the leads, and exacerbated by Kofler's often clever shot composition. A 100% on Rotten Tomatoes!
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