![]() ![]() ![]() In one part, Karl orders some sausages and beer from a food truck and the man tells him he has to order from the menu. I mean, I got the basic framework that people from Vienna don’t like people from Berlin (or really anywhere but Vienna), so there are lots of jokes and asides about that. Now, there are many jokes about language and culture that whizzed right by my head. The odds of her showing up, he assures the doubters, will only get better with each passing day. And he goes about his life in Vienna, except that every day at 2:30 when his alarm rings, he stops everything to head to the café and wait. He finds a room in an apartment with some odd, but well-meaning guys. He convinces his boss to allow him to continue his job from Vienna. It’s a ludicrous plan, but it’s buyable because he’s young and idealistic and also because everything else in his life remains mostly grounded. Eventually it will be her birthday, and then they will be reunited. The only thing for him to do, he decides, is move to Vienna and go to Sacher Café every day at 3pm. He heads back to Berlin, but can’t stop thinking that she could have been the love of his life. By the time he extricates himself, Nini is gone. When this plan fails, he hops a flight to Vienna, hoping to catch her as she’s getting off the bus, and he would have made it, if not for an unforeseen entanglement with a dog, the dog’s leash, and the dog’s owner. ![]() Sadly, she’s wearing headphones and staring moonily out the window, wondering why he hasn’t called or texted, so she doesn’t hear the bus steward announcing that a Mr. Distraught and determined to find her, he goes to the bus station and convinces a woman working there to call the bus steward and have her paged on the bus. She enters her number into his phone, but doesn’t save it, and tells him to call, but as the bus pulls away his irked boss calls and her number is reabsorbed into the binary ether. Their time together has been fleeting, but their connection feels electric and important and possibly life changing to both of them. They lie their way into a wedding dress fitting and cake tasting, where they share bits of information about themselves-they both love the movie Before Sunrise and she always goes to Sacher Café in Vienna on her birthday with her father at precisely 3pm-until the real couple shows up and they both must bolt, and Nini must run to catch her bus. This! This is why disability representation matters in movies. It’s a brief interaction, but it felt so genuine and forthright. There’s a moment when Matze reminds Karl how much he wanted to fix Matze after his initial injury. Samuel Koch, who plays Matze, uses a wheelchair, which is presented matter-of-factly in the movie, and this made me let out a breath I didn’t know I’d been holding. He lives with his brother Matze ( Samuel Koch) and pretty much with Matze’s girlfriend Lena ( Sarah Elena Koch) because she’s there most of the time. Karl ( Max Hubacher) is living a happy, if somewhat chaotic, life in Berlin. To a large degree, the movie follows the tried-and-true rom-com comfort formula, but with all the pretense, subterfuge, misogyny, and hijinks stripped away, leaving only an open, honest, frank, and touching portrayal of a starry-eyed search for love. My similes may not be watertight, but watching Sachertorte is definitely a delight. Or, it’s like trying a variation of your favorite treat and realizing it’s even more delicious than you thought possible. This movie is like discovering you have one more of your favorite treats left than you thought. ![]()
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