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Year
2008
Runtime
93 min.
Director
Christian Petzold
Genre
Drama
Rating *
7.0
Votes *
1,576
Checks
237
Favs
10
Dislikes
4
Favs/checks
4.2% (1:24)
Favs/dislikes
3:1
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  1. Andrewski's avatar

    Andrewski

    The second of Petzold’s movies I’ve watched and I’m really enjoying his style. This is another understated, very human drama with great performances and simmering tension. The camerawork and scene setting really make the emotions land, even if I felt like they needed a bit more backstory to why Thomas and Nina went to such lengths to be together. But the confinement everyone feels is almost palpable.

    I saw a blurb about how he uses cars throughout his movies as an analogue to his characters or the stories, and that is an almost on-the-nose feature of this movie (since it’s so much about driving around), but it’s really so subtle. Just people in cars, but how that brings them together or separates them is always a question being answered, or maybe a dynamic being demonstrated. Really effective storytelling.
    4 years 2 months ago
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  3. deckard.'s avatar

    deckard.

    so unconvincing. it fails to create a sound chain of events and behaviours. 1 year 10 months ago
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