Sabine Harbeke

“An evening in February in an apartment in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn and Amy are sitting at the kitchen table, decorated with a piñata with the number 43 and a cake with sparklers. It’s Glenn’s birthday. … Suddenly, the doorbell rings. Surprise! The late guest introduces himself: “We are brothers, half-brothers.”…
Swiss author and director Sabine Harbeke takes on a popular motive with… the strange intruder, who claims a (blood) relationship and casually makes himself comfortable in the four walls and relationships of other people.
Scott doesn’t only become an interference in the intimate construct of a marriage, but an explosive mine in the relationship of the couple, which is stuck because of habit and repression…" (Neue Luzerner Zeitung)

“Sabine Harbeke… is known for exploring the realities of private life with a cool outlook. With hyperbolic realism and a naturalism that’s formally exaggerated, showing the whole spectre of alienation stretching between people. Stretching till it rips in the case of Glenn and Amy. … Harbeke’s method is the strength of the characters, when through empty spots in the biography and finely rhythmic texts, the longing for the other, the inkling of life’s possibilities appears. Then, the evening becomes shimmering, hypnotic, and truly light.” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)