FIFTEEN MONTHS IN MAY
Director: Anja Murmann
Feature film | USA/D | 1997
90 min | ComOpt
31st Hof International Film Festival
1997
Nike, a young Danish woman, shares an upscale Bohemian life with two brothers, Paul and Julian, in New York, supported by their inheritance. Although Niki is a lover to both men, there is no sexual tension. The dark side of their lives is revealed when they lose their money. Their free spirits and lack of ambition are terrible handicaps to earning a living. As the financial pressure mounts, they begin to see each other’s flaws: Julian’s gambling, Paul’s procrastination, Niki’s dependence. When the three are thrown out of the Garden of Eden, they find themselves on a rocky road that exposes them to poverty, jealousy and addiction …