What Marielle Knows

4/25/2025

Watching it all play out is moderately interesting, there's a chuckle here and there but not more. Empathizing with the characters is made difficult by the vast difference in acting talent between Julia Jentsch and Felix Krämer. Her performances stands out so much that the whole thing is less believable.

10/26/2025

Honesty is a subject on seemingly everyone’s mind these days, for a variety of reasons. It’s widely regarded as something inviolable and sanctimonious, not to be questioned or minimized. But can there be such a thing as too much honesty, situations in which revealing more than what one realistically needs to know can be detrimental? And what if the truths that surface in those scenarios are impacted by a phenomenon like telepathy, where purposely containing the unrestricted and unfiltered flow of information can be challenging, if not impossible? Such are the circumstances set out in writer-director Frédéric Hambalek’s second feature. This contemplative dark comedy-drama tells the story of Marielle (Laeni Geiseler), an adolescent who develops the ability to see and hear what others are see