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What really makes the film work is the ambiguity around its central character.

This is high Gothic melodrama by the numbers.

This is a film about rejection. Everyone's contaminated in one way or another

A good decision von Trotta makes, is to use the actual footage of the trial and not have an actor play Adolf Eichmann.

The script, which was partly improvised, is unsentimental and fierce.

The plot behaves itself and is traditionally predictable

It’s certainly all very timely and apposite

Tideland is simply magnificent. It's bleak and creepy, but at the same time charming, wide-eyed and visionary.

The mother/daughter combo works a treat. McTeer and Brown spark off each other.

This is the closest you'll come to experiencing the allure of fame and the power of illusion.

The slow-building tension of the stage play is still there, but the added narrative space sees room for for Grand Guignol shocks aplenty.