Synopsis
It is winter in Montauk on Long Island. There are two deck chairs on the windswept beach – they are waiting for two people who have, for a long time, been lost to each other. He is a writer from Berlin. She is a New York lawyer. Many years before, they had a fling, but they were too young to know they had each met the love of their lives. Now they have come back to Montauk, filled with regret and hope. The bodies remember. It feels for them like the next day after the last one they had spent together. They do not know if it is possible to reverse time. In Montauk, they find out. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum), Return to Montauk was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Schlöndorff wrote the screenplay with Irish author Colm Toibin, based on a novel by Max Frisch.