Passages, 2023. Co-written and directed by Ira Sachs. Starring Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Ben Whishaw. SYNOPSIS: On the last day of his shoot in Paris, film director Tomas sleeps with a woman and proudly tells his husband about it. A passionate, jealous, and narcissistic relationship unfolds between Tomas, Agathe, and Martin. If perhaps slighter […]
Movie Review – Passages (2023)
Passages, 2023. Written and Directed by Ira Sachs. Starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Radostina Rogliano, Théo Cholbi, Arcadi Radeff, Léa Boublil, Thibault Carterot, Tony Daoud, Theo Gabilloux, Anton Salachas, Sarah Lisbonis, William Nadylam, Caroline Chaniolleau, and Olivier Rabourdin. SYNOPSIS: A gay couple’s marriage is thrown into crisis when one of […]
Movie Review – Undine (2020)
Undine, 2020. Directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski and Jacob Matschenz. SYNOPSIS: After a bizarre break-up with her previous boyfriend, a woman forms a new relationship with an industrial diver. Christian Petzold is a filmmaker who thrives when his audience is slightly unbalanced. His last film Transit was an unusual and beguiling […]
Movie Review – Undine (2020)
Undine, 2020. Written and directed by Christian Petzold.Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob Matschenz, Maryam Zaree, Anne Ratte-Polle, Julia Franz Richter, Rafael Stachowiak, José Barros and Gloria Endres de Oliveira. SYNOPSIS: Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Undine
Undine, 2020. Written and directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, and Maryam Zaree. SYNOPSIS: Undine works as an historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. […]
Movie Review – A Hidden Life (2019)
A Hidden Life, 2019. Written and Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling, Ulrich Matthes, Karl Markovics, Franz Rogowski, Tobias Moretti, Martin Wuttke, Max Mauff, Johan Leysen, Waldemar Kobus, Sophie Rois, Maria Simon, and Nicholas Reinke. SYNOPSIS: The Austrian Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, a […]
Movie Review – Transit (2018)
Transit, 2018. Written and Directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, and Sebastian Hülk. SYNOPSIS: In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young […]
Movie Review – Happy End (2017)
Happy End, 2017. Written and Directed by Michael Haneke. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Fantine Harduin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Laura Verlinden, Franz Rogowski, Aurélia Petit, and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: A drama about a family set in Calais with the European refugee crisis as the backdrop. There is a lot going on in Happy End, the latest […]
Movie Review – Victoria (2015)
Victoria, 2015. Directed by Sebastian Schipper. Starring Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, and Max Mauff. SYNOPSIS: A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret. Victoria may be a 138 […]
29th Leeds International Film Festival Review – Victoria (2015)
Victoria, 2015. Directed by Sebastian Schipper. Starring Laia Costa, Frederick Lau and Franz Rogowski. SYNOPSIS: Victoria meets a group of guys while at a club, but soon finds herself drawn into their world when they have to repay a dangerous favour that same night. If you’ve read anything about Victoria, it’s that it’s done in […]