Michael Wood · At the Movies: Christian Petzold s Afire · LRB 21 September 2023 lrb.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lrb.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical presents an uplifting portrait of a Dominican neighborhood in New York where political strife rarely intrudes.
Transit). This originally premiered at last year s Berlin Film Festival, also where
Paula Beer won the Silver Bear for Best Actress in this film. Beer stars as the titular Undine (based on the Undine myth), who works as a historian lecturing on Berlin s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her… the ancient myth catches up with her. She must kill the man who betrays her and return to the water, but she also falls in love with him. Also with
Franz Rogowski as her new lover, with
Maryam Zaree,
Anne Ratte-Polle, and
Rafael Stachowiak. It s a very sweet film about love, I wrote a little review of it.