Agnes And His Brothers

German writer-director Oskar Roehler's overwrought melodrama follows the misfortunes of the Tschimer brothers of Cologne, who have different mothers but share a single wealthy, hard-drinking, monumentally self-involved father, Gunther (Vadim Glowna). Eldest brother Werner (Herbert Knaup), a high-profile Green Party politician, is the most outwardly successful, but his home life is a miserable quagmire. His wife, Signe (Katja Riemann), drinks and has banished him to the living-room couch; her relationship with their 18-year-old son, sneaky, shiftless aspiring filmmaker Ralf (Tom Schilling), borders on the incestuous; and only the dog seems happy when Werner comes home...