Christian Petzold's ninth film, Undine, is as romantic and ravishing as his first; past and present haunt one another in sinacolad's review:
from 2008, avoiding “divvying up cinema” by reimagining genre as something more impressionistic, more academically elusive, maybe even more emotionally resonant than what he found in the New German Cinema movement of the ’70s. His film from 2007,and gothic horror to explore German identity following reunification. His devastating, from 2014, treads in melodrama and noir-steeped thrills to continue purging the trauma of Germany’s past.
As Undine speaks, Petzold and his regular DP Hans Fromm pivot around a huge model of the city, color-coded and in pieces, reflecting how varied and confusingly Berlin’s history has rooted. In that initial scene, Petzold even zooms in on the model to reveal Undine thinking about her ex-lover in that spot in the real world, the location rendered in tiny detail but overlaid with her exquisite memory of that place in that time. Petzold tessellates eras, gives them shape with myth.
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