Bleeding Hearts

Bleeding Hearts follows the Müller family — a wealthy, deeply dysfunctional Jewish-German dynasty — across a single summer and into New Year's Eve in New York City. Anchored in their Southampton estate and Manhattan apartment, the film traces the slow unraveling of a family held together by money, façade, and suppressed resentment. At the center is patriarch Friedrich Müller, a man of formidable stature whose grip on the family is loosening. Around him orbit his five adult children: Eva, the controlled eldest; Rabin, the newly married golden son; Hannah, navigating her own quiet dissolution; Felix, the charming, self-serving youngest who schemes behind a smile; and Isaac, the volatile, music-driven wild card whose chaos barely conceals real pain. The youngest brother, Alexander, moves through the margins, carrying a secret of his own. What begins as a celebration of Rabin's wedding spirals through betrayal, substance abuse, financial deception, sibling warfare, and explosive family dinners. On New Year's Eve, as tensions reach their breaking point, Friedrich collapses — and the family's every wound is laid bare at once. The film ends not with resolution, but with silence: Isaac running home through snow, and a window left open.