When We Saw Each Other More Often — William Wrubel [Review]

Writing about Valeska Grisebach’s The Dreamed Adventure, critic Ali Karimnia observes that it is “a cinema that, rather than telling us what the world is, creates the conditions under which our way of looking at it might shift, however slightly.” William Wrubel’s debut feature When We Saw Each Other More Often fits neatly within this heuristic, an ostensibly “realist” drama about twenty- and thirtysomethings navigating life and love in modern Germany. It’s a film not only of melancholic endings and...