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She’s rolling in the grass dressed in sunflower yellow, kissing a man about whom she’s passionately ambivalent (“Boyfriends and Girlfriends,” 1987). She’s strolling through the countryside in a fleecy blue sweater, having no fun at all (“The Green Ray,” 1986). This is summer love, Eric Rohmer-style: It isn’t easy, but it sure is chic. The characters are “often on vacation, so you want something that’s sort of breezy that you can move in,” she said. “His clothes aren’t extravagant, but they’re elegant in this easy, ineffable way.”
Persons: she’s, Ray, She’s, Frenchman, Eric Rohmer, ” Alexandra Tell, Locations: France
The German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s spiky and at times mordantly funny “Afire” is a tonic for moviegoers tired of nice, squishable, likable, relatable dull and dull characters. Yet while the writer is boorish, he’s never insipid; he’s pleasurably bad company. One of the most reliably interesting and surprising filmmakers working today, Petzold makes sharp, visually intelligent, psychologically sophisticated movies. There, the men will be alone while Leon waits for his publisher and Felix readies an art-school portfolio. When they arrive, though, they find that the mother has invited a third, a stranger to the men named Nadja (Paula Beer).
Persons: Christian, , he’s, He’s, Barbara ”, Petzold, Éric Rohmer, Leon, Thomas Schubert, Felix, Langston Uibel, Felix readies, Nadja, Paula Beer Locations: Sandwich, Hollywood, United States, East Germany, Baltic
“Afire” was not the film that Mr. Petzold set out to make. After presenting his 2020 film “Undine” in Paris, Mr. Petzold and Paula Beer, the film’s lead (she also stars in “Afire”) came down with Covid-19. While convalescing in Berlin, he binge-watched films by the French New Wave director Éric Rohmer and read stories by Anton Chekhov. In that first pandemic spring, Mr. Petzold’s thoughts turned to summer and to summer films, a genre that, according to him, has not properly existed in Germany since “People on Sunday” (1930). “And then I thought about the aftermath, National Socialism, which destroyed everything: the German summers, the German youth, the German bodies, the poetry.
Persons: , Petzold, Georges Simenon’s, Paula Beer, , Mr, Éric Rohmer, Anton Chekhov, Rohmer’s, Pauline Organizations: French New, Locations: Paris, Berlin, Germany, Wannsee, Weimar
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