Tag: Afire
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European Film Awards Contenders Lineup Includes Cannes, Berlin, Sundance Award Winners
The European Film Academy has fired the starting gun in the race for the European Film Awards. It has recommended 19 films to its members who will then select the nominees from this list, as well as some additional titles that will be announced next month.Among the selected films are Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or…
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With His ‘Afire,’ Christian Petzold Attempts Something New: Make a Sexy Summer Comedy
Few directors boast the consistent excellence of German auteur Christian Petzold. The puckish filmmaker got on Zoom from New York to unwind some of the surprises in Berlin’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner “Afire,” his tenth feature and third to star Paula Beer.It started out being called “The Lucky Ones.” “I love this title,”…
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Paula Beer on the Lure of Christian Petzold’s ‘Afire’ and Why He and Nina Hoss Stopped Working Together
Christian Petzold’s latest feature, “Afire,” takes a blacklight to the artistic ego and to the trope of the manic pixie dream girls who supposedly enshrine it.The invigorated spin on what is typically that sort of character in a movie like “Afire” is realized in this deceptively light, Eric Rohmer-esque affair by Paula Beer. The German…
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‘Afire’ Trailer: Christian Petzold Lightens Up and Kindles a Romance with Paula Beer
Christian Petzold finds himself somewhere between the lands of late Éric Rohmer and vintage Noah Baumbach with his new romantic drama, “Afire.”The German director of serious war-historical films like “Transit” and “Phoenix,” which bent time both in terms of their cinematic references and their manipulations of stylistic anachronisms, gets less serious with this film about…