SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“Petzold eschews melodramatic excess but revels in the power of the genre’s logic-defying twists – coincidences, resemblances, chance encounters – to restore enchantment to fragmented, alienated existences.”
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Christian Petzold. In German with English subtitles.
Undine (Paula Beer) works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. Will Undine defy fate when she meets a diver (Franz Rogowski) offering her a chance at new love?