Gespenster

Since my movie-friend looked at me with that kind of surprise that says, "where did you live the last years?", as I admitted that Jerichow was my first experience of a Christian Petzold movie, I had to eliminate that and started with his third big movie, Gespenster (ghosts) yesterday.
In my humble opinion, the movie is a very German one, although I am not quite able to describe what that would mean - maybe taken back dialogues (the most is not articulated, rather than articulated), absent explanations and answers, plain mimics and restrained action - is that German? At least it's something I associate with German cinema.
It's difficult to sum the story up, since it would not even come close to what the movie is or wants to be - the camera work by Hans Fromm is as beautiful and supporting as in Jerichow, the actors Julia Hummer and Sabine Timoteo are a perfect match and the overall mood is absorbing.
Next one to watch will be Der freie Wille by Matthias Glasner, staring Sabine Timoteo.

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