Böse Zellen

Barbara Albert tackles an ambitious subject: the chaos theory, applied to the daily life of her characters. The filmmaker uses Edward lorenz’ famous “butterfly effect” to set Bose Zellen in motion. A butterfly’s beating wings set off a tornado above the Gulf of Mexico that causes the crash of an airplane leaving for Europe. A single passenger survives: Manu, a young woman of 24. We see her again five years later, living in a small town in Austria, working in a local supermarket. The circle of people around her expands according to the people she meets, deliberately sought out or accidentally encountered. This fabric of interweaving lives creates a constant flux of “cause and effects”. Depending on the decisions taken by individuals, destinies change, intersect, become entangled, tending as often towards happiness as to misfortune.