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Harun Farocki

“Ten years on it’s always the article on the back of the newspaper cutting that’s of interest, but half a column is missing.”

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    Phoenix

    PHOENIX

    CHRISTIAN PETZOLD Germany, 2014

    Collaborating once more with Harun Farocki and lead actor Nina Hoss, Christian Petzold (Barbara) carefully crafts this cleverly plotted, smotheringly suspenseful post-WW2 drama. An especially impressive combination of throwback thriller and genre elements with substantial thematic weight.

    The State I Am In

    THE STATE I AM IN

    CHRISTIAN PETZOLD Germany, 2000

    Christian Petzold displayed a rare gift for genre subversion from the very start. At once a coming-of-age tale and terrorists-on-the-run thriller, his debut feature uses the former to comment on the latter—its mutable young protagonist serving as a proxy for a nation surveying its traumatic past.

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