“Another End”, interview with actress Renate Reinsve

February 20, 2024

Renate Reinsve, actress in Another End: “To me the film is both about love and grief“

“Another End”, interview with actress Renate Reinsve Chiara Nicoletti

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“I want the questions of the film to be answered” says Renate Reinsve, in the cast of Piero Messina’s “Another End“, in competition at the 74th Berlinale. The film is set in an unidentified city of a possibile future where a new technology promises to ease the pain of separation by briefly bringing back to life the consciousness of those who have died, thanks to compatible host bodies. The actress who became internationally renowned with the protagonist role in “The Worst“, “Person in the World” by Joachim Trier, plays Ava, whose body is hosting the consciousness of Zoe, Sal (Gael Garcia Bernal)’s wife, recently dead after a car accident.

Looking at the film by her two characters’ point of view, Renate Reinsve confirms that “Another End” is for her both about grief, mourning and about love. As Piero Messina says, “Another End” is indeed a love story, a sci-fi one, which leads us to wonder: What makes us, us? memories? the people we love?

Renate Reinsve is also in competition at the 74th Berlinale with another film, “A Different Man” by Aaron Schimberg, playing alongside Sebastian Stan.

Plot

Since Sal has lost Zoe, the love of his life, he has been living only in his memories: memories like fragments of a shattered mirror that cannot be put back together. Sal’s sister Ebe, who observes her brother with growing concern, suggests he turn to Another End, a new technology that promises to ease the pain of separation by briefly bringing back to life the consciousness of those who have died. Sal finds Zoe again in this way, but in the body of another woman. What was broken suddenly seems to come together again. But this joy is fragile, fleeting, treacherous. Can love truly survive as a secret guarded by the body?

Written by: Chiara Nicoletti

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