…Marie, and that’s when things start to get really complicated. “It’s a fascinating adaptation, actually a complete reworking of a semi-autobiographical novel written in 1942 by Anna Seghers, who was…
…Kurasmaki – The Finnish master of deadpan comedy tackles a forties-style romantic comedy, complete with a sweeping score, and dramatic scene cuts and makes it his own. Our two leads,…
…cast is comprised of German non-actors. And you can tell. But the dude who plays Otto is pretty charismatic for a zombie. The guy who plays Fritz is handsome and…
…interested, come to the Brattle Theatre for the 7:00 screening of GODZILLA: FINAL WARS. That’s right, allegedly the last Godzilla movie to come out of Japan. This one opens on…
Thom says: “It’s post-WWII Hamburg where a colonel is there with his family to help with Reconstruction and they move into a house still populated by the German owner and…
…science-fiction novel would appeal to fairly specialized tastes under the best of circumstances, and this one is kind of weird even for that background. I was into it, but I’m…
…to be found in ‘The Deal’, where Oscar Martinez, Osmar Núñez, and Germán de Silva make perfect complements as the core of the film’s largest ensemble. Dario Grandinetti is notable…
…before seeing the film. Niko struggles to make sense of the world around him, slowly realizing that what he needs is to make sense of himself. He is a complicated…
…the ‘five fathers’ of the present-day narrator who recounts this story for some German tourists trapped underneath the rubble during the recent Tokyo earthquakes. It’s an odd way to frame…
…smuggled a paper out of the country to the West, and to circuitous Party dogma that no one can understand except Party hacks. Sorin Parvu (Sorin Leoveanu) is under grave…