The Immanent Transcendence in Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’
Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling operates in the language of the unconscious, which is the language of the dead. The viewer must invite the dead into each present moment.
German cinema
‘Amrum’ Presents Wartime Distress with Visual Grace
Fatih Akin’s visually beautiful wartime drama, Amrum, turns a child’s survival into a memory handed from one talented filmmaker to another.
Sound of Falling’s Slow Exhaustion of Memory
In Mascha Schilinski’s moody psychological drama Sound of Falling, we sense that a place can outlast the lives shaped inside it: what happened there does not disappear.
Kamikaze 89’s Unexpected Deaths and Hideous Trousers
In sci-fi thriller Kamikaze 89, Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the whole show.
Love and Claustrophobia in ‘The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant’
Fassbinder’s stifling drama about the sufferings of dependence,The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, is high camp, where the sparks fly with radiant colours.
‘The Lives of Others’ Grips Us with Almost Complete Control
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s first film, The Lives of Others is part paradox, part prophecy. It’s a stellar achievement in archival storytelling and historic perspective.