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Amina Handke adapts the 1967 theatre play Kaspar written by her father Peter Handke Instead of a young man being tortured by language we meet an old woman played by the directors mother Libgart Schwarz who loses her linguistic abilities while rehearsing for the very same play What begins as a pure and playful family metafiction turns into a surreal partly nonsensical Babylonian confusion its just that its not different languages that are clashing but layers and fragments of the German language the language of the father The film avoids the traps of representational cinema Its all noises and muttering injunctions and an almost Dadaist pleasure in repeating sentences until they completely lose their meaning