Christian Petzold has arguably been Germany’s most consistently impressive filmmaker over the past decade, but he comes up more than a bit wet with Undine, a kind of arty variation on Splash.
Paula Beer, who made her mark in the director’s stunningly controlled drama Transit two years ago and in March won the Berlin Film Festival’s best actress award for this film, again dominates the proceedings, this time as a Berlin City Museum lecturer-historian who leads a distinctly peculiar double life that gives off elusive Vertigo vibes and also calls to mind Neil Jordan’s 2009 mermaid tale Ondine.
IFC Films is handling the title in the U.S., where it was on the shortlist to be Germany’s submission in the International Feature Oscar race.“If you
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