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Julie Lopes-Curval: HIGH SOCIETY/LE BEAU MONDE (2014)-- Film Comment Selects
Actually seen earlier, at a public screening of Film Comment Selects, the other important series at this time at Lincoln Center. This is by the director of the low-keyed observational portrait of a small French coastal town society from 2002, SEASIDE/BORD DE MER, which many may have seen; it is available on Netflix streaming video. That I commented on recently. It may be preferable to the new one, which is about a young couple, a working class girl and an upper class boy, she trying to make it in the world of Paris fashion technology, he turning from business school to being a photographer. She succeeds, but their cross-class love affair doesn't last. This is an elegant film with nice details, but is lightweight in its impact.
Christian Petzold: PHOENIX (2014)
Also Film Comment Selects public screening at the Walter Reaade Theeater. About a woman who returns from Auschwitz with facial surgery who reencounters her husband, who does not recognize her. The great Petzold, using his muse Nina Hoss for the sixth time to brilliant effect, takes an implausible premise and adopts American genre style to make a deeply resonant statement about Germany and the War. The man knows how to make movies. A stunning film and not to be missed. Scott Foundas, who reviewed for VARIETY, thinks this will be Petzold's most mainstream US success so far.
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