The film immerses us in the depths of the human experience without varnish or sentimentalism.
Its tinkering with historical record would be more welcome if it also shifted away from the standard biopic template.
Christian Petzold’s meditation on individual and cinematic ouroboros lands on Blu-ray with a masterful transfer from the Criterion Collection.
Phoenix never luxuriates in all this film history, but rather channels the artifice and affect it embodies into new insights.
Phoenix perpetuates one of the best contemporary director-actor collaborations.
Christian Petzold’s close-to-the-vest approach fits in the context of a narrative that takes place in 1980 East Germany
Most compelling in Barbara, Christian Petzold’s latest, is the way the filmmaker adeptly conducts his tides of Cold War paranoia.
The global economic maelstrom found a way to creep its way into the 47th edition of the festival—but only for a moment.