Tag Archives: German cinema

between night and day (film: Tagundnachtgleiche – Lena Knauss, 2020)

Posted on November 18, 2022 by admin

Discovering new filmmakers at the beginning of their careers and watching productions that surprise with quality and original vision is one of the joys of cinema lovers. I was well inspired to decide to watch ‘Equinox‘ (the original title is … Continue reading →

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dark German thriller (film: Die Vierhändige – Oliver Kienle, 2017)

Posted on November 7, 2022 by admin

‘Die Vierhändige‘ (‘Four Hands‘ in English) is an author movie written and directed by German filmmaker Oliver Kienle. It is a film that surprised me (for the better) by the quality and expressiveness of the image and by the intensity … Continue reading →

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Romy Schneider between docu-drama and melodrama (film: 3 Days in Quiberon – Emily Atef, 2018)

Posted on February 16, 2022 by admin

Romy Schneider is nowadays a legend. Along with James Dean, Gerard Philipe, Heath Ledger, John Belushi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, she is part of that tragic gallery of actors who lived too short and died before they could perform all the … Continue reading →

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‘you are so different’ (film: Drum cu tata / Die Reise mit Vater – Anca Miruna Lazarescu, 2016)

Posted on September 22, 2021 by admin

‘That Trip We Took with Dad‘ (the Romanian title is ‘La drum cu tata‘, the German title is ‘Die Reise mit Vater‘) is Anca Miruna Lăzărescu‘s 2016 debut feature film. The director was born in Romania but has lived in … Continue reading →

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a hijacking movie, but not like in Hollywood (film: 7500 – Patrick Vollrath, 2019)

Posted on September 17, 2021 by admin

‘7500‘, the 2019 film by German director Patrick Vollrath is part of Amazon’s efforts to position itself (and) as a film house, with original productions streamed with priority but not exclusively on its own channel. It belongs to the genre … Continue reading →

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between silence and lies (film: Labyrinth of Lies – Giulio Ricciarelli, 2014)

Posted on March 18, 2021 by admin

‘Im Labyrinth der Schweigens‘, the original German title of the 2014 film directed byGiulio Ricciarelli, has been translated into English as ‘Labyrinth of Lies‘. This translation is, as the Italian saying goes, a betrayal. ‘In the labyrinth of silence’ would … Continue reading →

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social melodrama at its best (film: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)

Posted on January 5, 2021 by admin

‘Ali: Fear Eats the Soul‘ (German title is ‘Angst essen Seele auf‘) was in 1974  Rainer Werner Fassbinder‘s first internationally acclaimed film, earning public and critical attention worldwide. He had already written and directed about 20 films, and roughly as … Continue reading →

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troubadour and anti-hero of a complex era (film: Gundermann – Andreas Dresen, 2018)

Posted on October 16, 2020 by admin

‘Gundermann‘ made in 2018 by Andreas Dresen is the biography of a musician. It can be categorized as a biographical and musical film but it is very different from what we usually see in these genres. 30 years have passed … Continue reading →

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Berlin according to Burhan Qurbani (film: Berlin Alexanderplatz – Burhan Qurbani, 2020)

Posted on October 8, 2020 by admin

The ambitious German director Burhan Qurbani faced a double legend when he decided to make his ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz‘. The literary starting point is Alfred Döblin‘s novel written and published during the Weimar Republic, a book that is repeatedly included in … Continue reading →

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the impossible homecoming (film: Phoenix – Christian Petzold, 2014)

Posted on July 14, 2020 by admin

‘Phoenix‘ made by Christian Petzold in 2014 is a seemingly simple film, telling almost linearly a story with only three main characters, but which contains a complexity of ideas and emotions that characterises only films or literary works of high … Continue reading →

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