Not.Now.

»The German social drama by Julia Keller illuminates a world of beautiful appearance. Behind the façade there is a void of meaning, loneliness and disorientation. Atmospheric, well acted, visually powerful. And above all: close to life. Worth seeing!«

»Disturbing personality and society study with a great Godehard Giese.«

Interview with director Julia Keller

»Julia Keller succeeds in creating such a tension that one follows the development of things in a spellbound manner. The action is treading on the spot – in keeping with the state of the deranged hero – but observes his implosion with psychological precision, whereby Godehard Giese convinces with calm and authenticity.«

»Precisely and with a sure instinct. With great lighting, great acoustics and a successful selection of images, director Julia Keller remains true to her truthfulness right up to the end. A mature performance.«

»A convincing debut film, which tells in an intelligent way about the loss of meaning in the modern performance society.«

»Godehard Giese plays this Walter, the nervous heart of this excellent film: how his character erects small talk facades, how after a meeting his confident facial expression drops and he first has to lean on the copier – that is precise, intense acting. There are even scenes in which Walter looks out of the car in silence or curves through the night, gripping.«

»Makes the coldness of the German growth dictate palpable even in the cozy cinema armchair. Social drama on a high level.«

»"Not. Now." shows an ice-cold Germany where only success counts. In her feature film debut, director Julia Keller shows a deeply lonely person, and she doesn't need any dialogue for that. A film that works through images.«

»Julia Keller's debut aptly captures the glossy and meaningless world of the 'high performers' in supercool images. It is a celebration to follow Godehard Giese as a likeable puke in his painful fall and disorientated escape attempt.«

»Godehard Giese brilliantly plays an existence in a frozen state, on whose surface the first cracks appear.«

»"Not.Now." shows what is going wrong in our modern achievement-oriented society. The social drama worries and gives hope: in a crisis, the protagonist realises that it is not only work that counts in life.«