Reviews by Anne-Katrin Titze

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  The Trip (2010)

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  The Trip is a big costume drama without the costumes.

  A comic road trip through the north of England.
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  The Trip To Italy (2014)

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  When the freshest food is eaten by rotting mortals and family is little more than a fragile crutch above the abyss, funny jokes can no longer hide the tragedy.

  Two men take a humorous journey through Italy in search of understanding and delicious food.
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  There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways Of Showing A Man Getting On A Horse (2020)

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  We start with men getting on horses. More than 36 of them.

  A tribute to Raoul Walsh and an essayistic consideration of cinema.
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  They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)

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  The documentary lifts the various stones around the movie's creation and lets us have a good look at the monsters hiding underneath Welles's barely watchable, misogynistic hate parade.

  Documentary about Orson Welles unfinished film, The Other Side Of The Wind.
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  This Is Not A Film (2011)

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  There is a charm and grace to this 'not' film that mirrors all of Panahi's previous filmic masterpieces.

  Jafar Panahi's postcard from Iran.
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  Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams (2024)

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  “I always have been a dreamer” the designer says, as we get a glimpse into his tie closet while he buttons his vest.

  A definitive portrait of pioneering American fashion designer Thom Browne, whose visionary reinvention of the tailored grey suit revolutionised fashion by challenging established notions of how men and women are expected to dress.
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  The Ties (2020)

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  There is a miraculous playfulness to all this destructive behaviour. When one riddle is solved, another one appears.

  Naples, early 1980s: Aldo and Vanda’s marriage finds itself on the rocks when Aldo falls in love with the young Lidia. Thirty years later, Aldo and Vanda are still married.
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  To Dust (2018)

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  To its great distinction, To Dust is concerned with the spirit in physical things.

  Trying to come to terms with the death of his wife, a Hasidic cantor seeks answers on how her body will decay.
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  Tár (2022)

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  Phantom chimes at night produce an atmosphere that could tumble into horror movie territory, but the real damage is done during the day.

  Set in the international world of classical music, this film centres on Lydia Tár. widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
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  T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets (2022)

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  He speaks of “sea bells”, in The Dry Salvages, bells we don’t hear. But we discern gulls instead.

  In the shadow of the Second World War, performance of a poem is a searching examination of who and what we are. A journey into the imagination, bound by experience, memory and time.
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  Two Of Us (2019)

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  Two of Us jolts the senses - you can smell when the hot pan stays on the stove too long and want to interfere.

  Two retired women, who have been in a secret relationship for decades, find their relationship turned upside down when the truth begins to come out.
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  The Two Popes (2019)

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  The Two Popes is totally captivating when Pryce and Hopkins simply talk and react to each other.

  A struggle, behind Vatican walls, between a cardinal and a Pope.
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  Two Days, One Night (2014)

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  Marion Cotillard tenderly lets us in on every nuance of dread, every vital decision.

  Sandra, a young woman assisted by her husband, has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job.
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  The Unknown Known (2013)

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  Ultimately, the Unknown Known is what you don't know you know. This film is a reminder.

  Documentary about Donald Rumsfeld.
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  Undine (2020)

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  When Petzold shows the broken mending again, the magic of cinema becomes the subject

  Undine is a city historian on urban development in a Berlin museum, the 'place by the swamp'. When her boyfriend leaves her, she vows to kill the faithless man but soon meets another.
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  Valley Of Love (2015)

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  The natural wonders of the desert can be read as an invitation to reach into the vast barrenness inside.

  Two estranged parents are brought together by a request from their son who committed suicide.
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  Venus In Fur (2013)

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  Seigner is wonderfully playful and her bold risk taking shows how much she trusts Polanski.

  An actress endeavours to convince a director of her talents so she can win a part in the play based on Sacher-Masoch's novel.
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  Viola (2012)

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  Being disorientated is part of the game of art - from William Shakespeare to the present.

  The lines between fiction and reality blur for an all-female Shakespeare troupe.
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  Virginia (2010)

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  Jennifer Connelly has never been more subtle and astute.

  A psychiatrically troubled woman trying to move on with her teenage son, finds her way blocked by a sheriff with whom she has had a long-standing affair.
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  The Velvet Underground (2021)

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  The Velvet Underground will restore your belief in documentaries!

  Cinematic collage that is as much about New York of the period as it is about the rise and fall of the seminal band.
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  Weekend Of A Champion (2013)

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  This film shows better than any documentary on the development of safety gear for drivers, cars and roads could ever do why the changes in the sport were necessary.

  Portrait of Jackie Stewart on the weekend of his victory at the Monte Carlo Grand Prix.
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  Where To Invade Next (2015)

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  Moore is hopeful for the US, too, as he strolls along the remnants of the Berlin Wall, built to last and tumbled nevertheless.

  Michael Moore considers what the US could learn from other countries.
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  White Gold (2013)

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  An exemplary wake-up call from collective consumerist slumber.

  Documentary about the organised poaching of elephant tusks.
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  Wild Life (2014)

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  If you think you can come to an easy judgement, the film seems to say, think again.

  A father tries to raise his two sons away from civilisation.
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  The Wind Rises (2013)

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  Miyazaki's films linger for a long time, they can't be pinned down, their meaning won't dissolve on the horizon.

  Hayao Miyazaki brings together the engineer Jiro Horikoshi and the author Tatsuo Hori in a fictional epic tale of love.
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  Women He's Undressed (2015)

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  If you don't know Orry-Kelly's contributions to cinema and even if you do, Women He's Undressed is a must-see.

  A documentary about the life of the Australian costume designer and three-time Oscar winner Orry-Kelly.
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  Wonder Wheel (2017)

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  When Allen foregoes his crutches, any kind of movie seems possible.

  On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.
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  Weightless (2024)

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  Like the protagonist we are swept up by a wave of questions about aviation and identity and the unbearable heaviness of memory.

  A grief-stricken amnesiac tries to regain his memory.
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  Wendy (2020)

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  Wendy makes an important point about children’s connection to nature.

  Lost on a mysterious island where ageing and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save her family, her freedom, and the joyous spirit of youth from the deadly peril of growing up. The classic story of Peter Pan is wildly reimagined in this ragtag epic.
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  What Maisie Knew (2012)

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  Directed with wit and panache by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, written by Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne, Maisie stays true to Henry James's two-part essence.

  A divorce and custody battle from the perspective of a young girl.
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  What Marielle Knows (2025)

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  The intriguing concept plays out from initial parental disbelief and denial to unexpected changes in behaviour and attitudes.

  Julia and Tobias discover that their daughter Marielle has suddenly developed telepathic abilities and can see and hear everything they do. This leads to situations ranging from the awkward to the absurd as uncomfortable truths are revealed.
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  Whitewash (2012)

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  The absurdly marvellous timing Haden Church has with Labrèche when they discuss glass eyes or the future, makes Whitewash also wonderfully, desperately funny.

  A man finds an encounter with a stranger changes his life forever.
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  White Noise (2022)

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  Baumbach shoots his disaster scenes, evacuations, and poisonous cloud rife with contradictions. The purple sky of doom is beautiful and strangely soothing.

  An Eighties American family attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
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  Wildlife (2018)

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  Landscape and music and everyday objects are used to splendid effect.

  A portrait of a family in crisis.
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  The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

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  This is how you destroy people's dignity and make them yours, Scorsese seems to say.

  Based on the true story of the rise and fall of a financial high roller.
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  The Worst Person In The World (2021)

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  There is a lingering, half blossomed melancholy that lies underneath the often very funny, fast-paced moments of quotidian chaos.

  Four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
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  You Are Not I (1981)

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  Exquisite.

  The director's long-lost debut, described by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the best made movies of the 1980s.
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  Yellow Is Forbidden (2018)

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  Guo Pei is full of contradictions and Yellow Is Forbidden doesn't try to hide that, quite the opposite.

  Documentary about Chinese designer Guo Pei and her struggle to become part of the world of haute couture.
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  Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

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  The actors have great chemistry and potently communicate things about human behavior in relationships, universal and specific, self-destructive and kind.

  Biopic of the French fashion designer.
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  Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

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  If you've read the paper during the last ten years, you won't get much new insight here.

  A recreation of the ten year hunt by US agents for Osama bin Laden.
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  The Zone Of Interest (2023)

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  There are no shortcuts in this film, no conventions and nothing careless.

  The daily lives of the Höss family outside the walls of Auschwitz.