All Good

Like a lot of slice-of-life films, "All Is Well" stubbornly withholds emotional payoffs, all the way through to a daringly elliptical ending.

Trobisch directs in fragmented scenes that always cut a beat or two short of expectation, like little shards of glass, and Schwarz makes Janne's actions comprehensible at every turn as her troubles slowly and inexorably deepen.

Trobisch paints an unstinting portrait of unreleased trauma - one marked by deep compassion for its scarred female protagonist, but a complex amoral stance on the spiralling, self-harming irrationality of her behavior.

Eva Trobisch's daring first feature is a psychologically complex portrait of a woman's unreleased trauma and the guilt that hangs like a tight rope around her neck.