For Those Who Love, Leave, and Love Again

Haunted by the memory of an absent and violent father, Paul moves restlessly through the Berlin night, letting himself be touched by fleeting encounters that only deepen his loneliness. Over the course of this nocturnal drift – a fragmented search for belonging, a fragile movement toward places he does not feel he belongs to – Paul oscillates between the desire to let go and the fear of looking within. Yearning for connection, reaching toward some possible shore, he passes through the noise of sex and the silence of night, the face of a stranger and the threshold of home, the urban jungle and the damp countryside, with the same muted warmth. Yet his fractured soul seems unable to find peace.

Filming, with both grace and rigor, the spleen of his wandering protagonist, Paolo Laganà succeeds in rendering the image of his inner turmoil, painting an emotional landscape steeped in melancholy and unease, but also in a poignant, aching beauty.

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