An infamous cult movie from Austria that dives into the life and mind of a serial killer and doesn’t look back. Intimately confined to the perspective of the killer, Angst is a risky yet altogether complex vision of the human mind gone astray.
Different incarnations of one woman are drawn into a dark vortex of sex, gambling, and crime in this shape-shifting, seductive French drama. Starring alongside Gemma Arterton and Adèle Haenel as one of four faces of mysterious femininity, Adèle Exarchopoulos is as beguiling as ever.
If The State I’m In was a new German cinema at its start, Christoph Hochhäusler’s combination financial drama and romance showcases its maturity. The setting is 21st century capitalism, the playing field, glass-walled skyscrapers and flats. But the stakes—life, happiness, love—are utterly human.