The Best Little Secrets Are Kept: Hambalek’s Absurdly Skewers the Virtues of Honesty
Honesty may indeed be the best policy and maybe the truth might set us free, but context and interpretation tends to shift these proverbial policies, especially when ‘the truth’ might exist in one of those pesky grey areas. Such is the crux of Was Marielle weiß (What Marielle Knows), a surprisingly effective comedy from German director Frédéric Hambalek starring Julia Jentsch and Felix Kramer as suburban professionals whose daughter develops telepathic powers overnight. Examining established cultural mores through the lens of marital expectations, Hambalek utilizes a ridiculous scenario to reach the kind of profound truths we obscure within ourselves for the purposes of convenience.… Read the rest
