8 March – 19:30 The Venue
Germany 2023
Dir: Christian Petzold
Cert: 12A
103 mins
Starring: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs
Friends Felix and Leon are surprised to find, on arriving at Felix’s family’s holiday cottage on the German Baltic coast, that they are not alone. A young woman, Nadja and boyfriend Devid are also guests there. This does not please Leon, a writer who has come to the cottage for the peace and quiet needed to complete his second novel. In fact nothing much pleases the peevish Leon who tends to take himself far too seriously. Although he finds the spirited Nadja attractive he cannot help but disapprove of her. Not so Felix, more cheerful and open-minded, who willingly makes friends with Nadja and Devid. We are set for a barbed tragi-comic tale of friendship and romance, bristling with sexual tension. And all along there lurks the threat of an encroaching forest fire.
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