Undine

Name: Undine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: June 4, 2021
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Anne Ratte-Polle, Enno Trebs, Franz Rogowski, Gloria Endres de Oliveira, Jacob Matschenz

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IFC Films | Release Date: June 4, 2021 | NR

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 (Paula Beer) works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. Will Undine defy fate when she meets a diver (Franz Rogowski) offering her a chance at new love?

Director: Christian Petzold

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: NR

Runtime: 90 min

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Jenny Nulf

Jul 14, 2021

Undine’s hauntingly aching romance is enchanting, as thick as the feeling of inhaling water into your lungs. There’s a drowning sensation to Petzold’s myth-building in Undine that’s totally engrossing, once again proving he is one of the world’s most exquisite love story composers. Read full review

Dom Sinacola

Jun 4, 2021

As in all of Petzold’s films, Undine builds a world of liminal spaces—of lives in transition, always moving—of his characters shifting between realities, never quite sure where one ends and another begins. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Jun 3, 2021

Undine isn’t a conventional romance, or a readily accessible one, but open yourself to this special film and you’re liable to be hooked. Read full review

Christopher Gray

Mar 1, 2020

The film questions the fixed nature of human behavior in a world whose borders are constantly shifting. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jun 4, 2021

Petzold keeps his mystery afloat (sorry) thanks to his impeccable craft even if this is a tale that sometimes feels like it needed a more magical and less direct approach. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Jun 2, 2021

What’s atypically clumsy here is Petzold’s effort to synthesize big ideas: Not only is the architectural metaphor overstated and the mythological element frustratingly vague, but the two have nothing much to do with each other, making Undine play like a bidding war between high concepts—one of them academic, the other genre-inflected. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Feb 28, 2020

It is possible to come away from the film less than convinced, but very impressed by the sheer force of Petzold’s film-making talent (recently so stunning in his drama Transit) but which has been here deployed for something which is a bit flimsy and silly. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Mar 12, 2022

The piano music and the end scene makes all the difference with this film. Mid way through I felt it was a little bland and I wasn't sure of the plot direction but I thought it was somewhat touching by the very end. The musical score makes a big difference, its subtle but certainly notThe piano music and the end scene makes all the difference with this film. Mid way through I felt it was a little bland and I wasn't sure of the plot direction but I thought it was somewhat touching by the very end. The musical score makes a big difference, its subtle but certainly not non-existent. It is most certainly an understated film and it may bore some people, its very much an arty film of course and its hardly gripping viewing but its thoughtful and ok at the end. I don't think I'd have persevered with this, had I not paid to view it. This is an ok film overall, no more really.… Expand

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