A wonderful film, almost too beautiful to be true. It was hard to cut a few minutes from Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt''s debut film, because choosing among its touching scenes seems all but impossible. An extract from a fantastic review in the Frankfurter Rundschau: The wonderfully fragile Sylvie Testud plays only a supporting role as a mentally ill mother in this fairytale-like, eerie survival story of three children. When she fails to place them with their father, she entrusts her 12-year-old son Jonas with the care of his two younger siblings. What follows is at first reminiscent, in substance, of "Nobody Knows", the epic chamber piece by the great Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda. As in that masterful survival drama, the adventure tips into tragedy when the youngest child falls ill and the situation overwhelms the brother. When the children''s house transforms into a mysterious biotope, visibly beautifying itself before young eyes through baroque cobwebs, the film is at its truest. Jürges'' camera makes the microcosm of the ants on the kitchen stove shine in shimmering close-ups. It is the childlike delight in the uncanny and the forbidden that this film recounts.