The Bloom of Yesterday

Totila Blumen (Lars Eidinger), a Holocaust researcher in the middle of a personal breakdown, is handed an assistant he never asked for. She is Zazie Lindeau (Adèle Haenel), a French Jew who distrusts Germans, and together they have to get a major congress ready. Chris Kraus pairs a grim subject with a sharp comic ear, so the jokes and the grief sit in the same room.