Synopse
Three couples in Vienna have children at around the same time. They're all in their mid-30s, successful, cool and live in a popular part of town. As idealistic as they are materialistic, they grow tomatoes on the balcony, drink locally roasted coffee and expensive cocktails and would never buy an electronic device sporting a half-eaten apple. And they're absolutely certain that you can have children without becoming bourgeois. But the reality tells a different story. Between career and kindergarten, Apple and alternative lifestyles, the satire plays cleverly with hipster clichés and mercilessly points up the gap between the old self-image and the new bourgeoisie.
Regie
Marie Kreutzer (*1977) studied screenplay writing and dramaturgy at the Vienna Film Academy. Her debut feature Die Vaterlosen [The Fatherless] (2011) won several prizes, including the Grand Prize of the Austrian Diagonale film festival.
Info
Original Title: Was hat uns bloß so ruiniert
International Title: We used to be cool
Category: Feature
Section: Kaleidoskop
Version & Subtitles: German OV with English subtitles
Director & Screenplay: Marie Kreutzer
Cast/Protagonists: Vicky Krieps, Pia Hierzegger, Pheline Roggan, Marcel Mohab, Manuel Rubey
Production country: Austria
Year of Production: 2016
Length: 96 min
Producer: Alexander Glehr, Franz Novotny
Production company: Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion
Cinematography: Leena Koppe
Editor: Ulrike Kofler
Music: Florian Blauensteiner
Production Design: Martin Reiter
co-production company: SWR
World Sales: Picture Tree International GmbH
Distributor: Lothar Seelandt





