Jerichow (Petzold, 2008 – SLIFF 2009)
(This is part of ongoing St. Louis International Film Festival coverage. Please click Festivals above for more reviews.) This loose visit to The Postman Always Rings Twice throws the whole notion of new German cinema for a loop. But this is what Christian Petzold seems good at: throwing things off balance. Every jot and tittle of the film is intensely precise, as if engineered rather than directed. The landscape shots of this lush rural corner of Germany are clinically framed,... Read More
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