Undine
RELEASE DATE: TBA
Starring:
Anne Ratte-Polle, Enno Trebs, Franz Rogowski, Gloria Endres de Oliveira, Jacob Matschenz, José Barros, Julia Franz Richter, Maryam Zaree, Paula Beer, Rafael Stachowiak
Summary:
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 her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
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Feb 28, 2020
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The Film Stage
Feb 28, 2020
In taking a centuries-old piece of mythology as its source material, Undine ultimately forgoes the inventiveness and sensuality of its first half by slipping into relatively bland predictability. And for a filmmaker who thrives on disregarding narrative conventions, it feels a fatal error. “Relatively” is the key here. This is still Petzold after all, if not peak Petzold.
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Feb 28, 2020
The Guardian
Feb 28, 2020
Feb 28, 2020
There’s a stylistic and narrative elegance to Petzold’s approach, with its clean lensing and repeated use of a single piece of music (the rolling piano Adagio from Bach’s Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974), that suggests restraint, where a queer filmmaker might have propelled things into camp territory. In a way, it’s a shame that Undine stops short, since the material feels thin, and the statement as murky as the lake to which the camera ultimately returns.
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