Prince

Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Their lives intersect while they are hiding in the rear room of a bar during a police raid, when the first of many sparks flies between them. Monika and Joseph. She works as a curator at a gallery, he is a businessman originally from Congo. Their worlds could not be more different. Monika’s friends are intellectuals, while Joseph lives among a vibrant community of often illegal African immigrants. Can their relationship last? Their friends don’t think so, and it seems that even the lovers themselves are sometimes fumbling in the dark. An understated love story, a melodrama without pathos, a fragile story about the ambiguous nature of love and the impossibility of overcoming it through reason. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)