With cowriter Harun Farocki, director Christian Petzold adapts Hubert Monteilhet's novel «Le retour des cendres» («Return from the Ashes») into
a haunting film about love, betrayal, and how one woman's identity becomes the ultimate casualty of war.
Not exact matches
There is so much to
love about the
film, from the performances by leads Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, who make an impressive career turn and lead actor debut respectively and establish incredible chemistry, to the
haunting classical - meets - nu - wave - pop soundtrack.
Major influences: «As far as the camera, I was thinking
about [Stanley] Kubrick and «The Shining» and I was thinking
about Peter Greenaway, who is a filmmaker I actually find really upsetting and I don't
love his
films but I do find them very
haunting.