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Will You Marry Us?

MICHA LEWINSKY
Switzerland, 2009, 90 minutes, Color
In Person: Director Micha Lewinsky and Star Oriana Schrage

This charming romantic comedy was Switzerland's top-grossing film of the year. In a Swiss village straight out of a chocolate ad, Rahel Hubli (Marie Leuenberger) works as a civil registrar performing marriages. Although her own marriage isn’t going well, she continues to offer advice to the dozens of couples that she pronounces husband and wife. Rahel misses the local singing success she had with former partner Ben Hofer (Dominique Jann), now a certified pop star under pressure to produce a new record. Suddenly, Ben shows up wanting Rahel to marry him—to his flighty actress girlfriend. The script is full of running jokes, colorful supports, and jabs at provincial Swiss mores. As keenly written as it is slyly performed, Will You Marry Us?, which earned Leuenberger the Best Actress prize at the 2009 Montreal festival, is an unheralded and revelatory delight. —Eddie Cockrell

In German with English subtitles

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