Review: ‘A Woman in Berlin’

samcmac — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:08:00 +0000

German actress Nina Hoss has a central role in Christian Petzold’s second feature, “Jerichow,” one of my favorite films of 2009’s first half, and now she carries Max Färberböck’s WWII picture, “A Woman in Berlin,” which premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival but is just now getting its limited U.S. theatrical release this weekend.

In both films Hoss finds herself mired in dangerous power-struggles with men, spurred by cultural divides. In “Jerichow,” a present day re-imagining of “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” Hoss plays a native German controlled by the wealthy Turkish immigrant husband who rescued her from debt, and whose side she cannot leave.

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TIFF Review: ‘A Woman in Berlin’ Humanizes Both Sides Of An Untold WWII Atrocity

Rodrigo Perez — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:36:00 +0000

We’re sounding like a broken record. What did we know about “A Woman in Berlin” before going in at TIFF? Not a hell of a whole lot, other than that it was a German film and we felt like branching out and taking in something different for a change of pace (plus we’ve been digging a lot of Kraut-made WWII cinema of late). We will admit there was one draw, the music of Zbigniew Preisner, the composing maestro behind the haunting scores to many, many Krzysztof Kieślowski films, one of our all-time favorite directors.

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TIFF Review: ‘A Woman in Berlin’ Humanizes Both Sides Of An Untold WWII Atrocity