A film by Timm Kröger
With: Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuß, Philippe Graber, David Bennent, Ladina Carla von Frisching, Imogen Kogge, Emanuel Waldburg-Zeil, Paul Wolff-Plottegg
Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly, mysterious deaths begin to pile up and Johannes tries to uncover the secret under the mountain.
Our Review: –
A seemingly ambitious film, whose script quickly proves to be uninteresting, repetitive, abstruse and pointless, and whose form is classic, banal and unrelieved. We’re treated to a sort of extended episode from the third dimension, with no mystery, no psychological truth, no romance, emotion or reflection. Die theorie von allem doesn’t even have the methaphysical or philosophical components that the title suggests. The path followed, to paraphrase Heidegger, leads nowhere, pacing problems quickly become apparent, and what little poetry the preliminary ellipses had to offer is totally wiped out by the film’s last half-hour, when an ominous voice-over explains what would have been so much better left vaporous, so that everyone’s imagination could have exercised itself in piecing together the puzzle, and finding a meaning that the film seemed to question, rather than affirm.