My dispatches from the 50th New York Film Festival continue with Germany's submission to this years Oscar race for Best Foreign Film:
Barbara.
I will gladly watch a film that leans on the brakes a little too hard over one that is pumps up the melodrama out of fear our attention will drift. Barbara doesn’t contain a single bad scene, or a moment when the director’s control of the material is less than assured. It is simply that Petzold keeps the drama on such a low simmer that at times you feel yourself silently urging him to crank it up a notch...
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| Nina Hoss as Barbara |
My dispatches from the 50th New York Film Festival continue with Germany's submission to this years Oscar race for Best Foreign Film: Barbara. 
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