Tedious and clumsy movie, narrated in the most simpleminded and boring way possible, about a mousy single mother photographer who is empowered by subsidies extracted by the government from productive taxpayers to take completely unremarkable photos that no one would buy with money they earned, have pseudo-intellectual conversations with her women associates, who are just as devoid of intelligence and creativity, ponder social issues of which she has not the slightest real understanding, and in general pretend to do very important and meaningful things while in reality accomplishing absolutely nothing, converting the tension of partitioned Berlin into a dull depiction of a housewife whose unease with being liberated from that position leaves her nagging society like she would a husband.
