Leon (Thomas Schubert), the exasperated — and exasperating — young writer at the heart of the superb German drama “Afire,” has a mesmerizingly punchable scowl. It’s a scowl that rarely leaves your ...

Christian Petzold returns to the Berlinale this year with Afire, the second installment of his elemental trilogy following 2020’s water-inspired Undine and preceding a forthcoming film about earth.

“If you’re working [together] for such a long time, maybe it’s like taking care of your relationship.” Christian Petzold’s latest feature, “Afire,” takes a blacklight to the artistic ego and to the ...

The filmmaker trades the capital-H history of “Phoenix” and romantic fantasy of “Undine” for a more subdued — and sometimes surprisingly funny — character study. “Something is wrong,” says tortured ...

Wincingly well-observed and acidly funny, the German auteur's latest sees a young writer taking out his creative insecurities on everyone in his path — and that's before the fires begin. And then ...

German filmmaker Christian Petzold has made a career trading on big ideas – cinematic dialogues with history and culture that are long and winding and heavy and masterful. Think of 2018′s Transit, ...