Rendezvous
Some dates you never stop keeping.
The Thought Behind It
There's a moment in this film where you understand everything, and nothing needs to be explained.
Das Rendezvous started with an image I couldn't shake: an old man getting dressed for someone who is no longer there. Walter is 65. He has a calendar entry. He has a Jutebeutel packed for two. And he moves through his morning with this quiet, unhurried care that just got me.
What he carries with him, and where he's going, I'll let you discover for yourself.
I wanted to make something still. No big moments, no dramatic turns just a man and the ritual he refuses to give up. There's something in that refusal that I find really beautiful, and I hope it comes across that way rather than as something to feel sorry about.
Das Rendezvous is about what we hold onto when holding on is all we have left and why that might not be sad at all.
The Making
We had three days to pull it together. Location, cast, crew, props. All of it. Somehow we managed, and two days later we were shooting with a team of about 15 people.
What came out of it still surprises me a little. A film with almost no dialogue, put together under real pressure, that somehow ended up feeling considered. Unhurried. The two months of post helped with that, I think. We took the time there that we didn't have at the start.
It's a good reminder that a tight frame doesn't have to mean a small result.
