Elisabeth Wagner

Oscillant entre le cinema direct, le cinema verite et le documentaire, "20 dates" est en fait un film de fiction qui met en scene le realisateur, citoyen ordinaire de Los Angeles qui, a la recherche d'une petite amie, decide de filmer ses rencontres. "Pas besoin, declare-t-il, d'avoir le budget de "Titanic". C'est aussi un sujet riche, contemporain et social qui offre de passer du drame a l'humour, du rire aux larmes. Quoi de plus drole qu'un rendez-vous? Quoi de plus stressant? Et de plus, cela nous concerne tous...".

A family reunion aboard a ship becomes a turning point in the life of 39-year-old engineer Markus. When his son Adam (4) gets a little cut after going to the bathroom with his grandmother Renate, Markus recalls for the first time what his mother did to him when he was a little boy. Markus and his wife Monika find themselves confronted with an ugly truth of the kind you wouldn’t think a mother capable of.