Thomas is 38 and reaches a crucial point in his life. He is unemployed and divorced, but still has contact with his ex-wife and his son. He has a relationship with a young English woman who gives him language lessons. He is fasting to ‘rege¡nerate his cells’, but that only makes him more touchy. His parents cause him more worry than he likes. Yet Thomas tries to keep the mid-life crisis at a distance and Everything I Like is far from being a pessimistic film – the title alone contradicts that.The film has a stunning structure. Director Martin Sulík inserts poetic title frames to indicate large and small episo¡des in Thomas’s life which is not without humour. Sometimes one of these chapters is no more than one scene, at other moments Sulík manages to show great conflicts in Thomas’ life in a simple and subtle way. He masterfully reveals the inter¡action between Thomas and his surroundings, his bad-tempered son, his miserable ex and several other strange characters who populate the film.
