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Jan 18, 2025

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Aug 7, 2024

It's a really good movie

Aug 6, 2024

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Aug 5, 2024

I really liked the characters and actions of the actors

Jun 7, 2024

As Nelly transformed into her own doppelgänger, the tension increased with delicate precision- so impressively in-step with the flowering of the lead character's fragile, tragic and eventually triumphant beauty and grace.

Dec 14, 2023

The plot is so nuanced, the characters so keenly observed and realized that it's shocking that the movie is also so economical. No moment is wasted as the film builds to what I can only describe as a perfect ending.

Nov 5, 2023

Denial and deception are both intertwined in this emotionally chilling piece. Director Christian Petzold's German historical post-war melodrama Phoenix (2014) is fascinating. It is a slow moving meditation on the trauma inflicted by the Nazis and how Jewish people must deal with their pain. Writers Christian Petzold and Harun Farocki adapt Hubert Monteilhet's novel with an interesting perspective of empathy and condemnation. I found it interesting we're watching a Jewish woman returning from a concentration camp, unable to start again with her changed face. She is in denial over her own husband having turned her into the SS and ruined her life. She honestly thinks she can win him back in a twisted turn of events. The German husband is in denial and dismissal of the pain he caused and how cruel the German Nazis were to Jews. It's a very bleak and dark picture. The quiet ending is haunting, but also leaves something to be desired. Nina Hoss is phenomenal as Nelly Lenz. Her final singing scene is beautiful and devastating. Her every expression of grief over her lost life and pathetic clinging to her Nazi husband who nearly got her killed and divorced her is so sad. Nina Hoss is a wonderful actress. She is very subtle and touching with these hurt eyes that linger. Ronald Zehrfeld is sickening as the forceful and controlling Nazi husband Johnny Lenz, now hiding out under the false name of Johannes. He does a good job of showing how cruel and inconsiderate Johnny is, clearly only thinking of money and not even recognizing the wife he betrayed. Nina Kunzendorf is moving as the furious Lene Winter, who cannot believe a Jewish woman sent to the camps could forgive and still love her Nazi husband. She cannot cope with this tragic tale and removes herself from the situation entirely. Petzold's direction is gripping, grey, and dreary. He has a bit of a neo-noir style, but this Vertigo twist story is more sad than revealing. I wish editor Bettina Böhler cut this quicker as Phoenix is merely 99 minutes, but felt twice that length. Hans Fromm's dark cinematography is striking and production designer Klaus-Dieter Gruber recreates ruined post WWII Berlin in rubble. Composer Stefan Will's stunning score is gentle and brings a lot of emotion to Phoenix. Costume designer Anette Guther goes from rags to striking red dresses for Nina Hoss. Makeup artists Barbara Kreuzer, Alexandra Lebedynski, and Irina Tübbecke-Bechem transform Nina Hoss from scarred survivor to haunted lady finding herself again. Hairstyling from Jeanette Kellermann is interesting from the frazzled grey and browns to lush wavy brunette hair for Nina Hoss. In all, Phoenix is frustrating and sad to see such a tragic relationship and how hurt Nina Hoss' heroine Nelly feels.

Oct 1, 2023

Revenge is a dish best served cold and this tale is downright icy at its core. The moment the penny drops for Johannes is SO satisfying.

Jul 31, 2023

Buena sin merecer tanta frescura, siempre esperando el climax en el desarrollo de la historia, el final buenísimo

Nov 10, 2022

Slow-paced and implausible - I'm skeptical the husband wouldn't recognize his wife even if her face had been rearranged - with an ultimately unsatisfying ending.

Oct 23, 2021

6/10 weak at times..

May 17, 2021

If Vertigo was set during the end of the holocaust and rightfully ends on a haunting note

Mar 7, 2021

Awful. The first half was good, but then we reach the point where we are expected to believe that a man might not suspect that a woman might be his former wife, simply because she has had reconstructive facial surgery, even though he spends enough time close to her to observe that she is the same height, has the same eyes, the same mannerisms, the same voice, the same way of speaking as his former wife,etc. At that point I stopped watching. Ridiculous.

Feb 19, 2021

A heartbreakingly sad and haunting tale of betrayal and revenge. The revenge is beautifully understated. Nina Hoss is brilliant.

Dec 16, 2020

Beautiful, although hard to believe! What an ending though - holy smokes...

Oct 2, 2020

I got about 20-40 minutes into this film and almost gave up on it as a one-star stinker. Don't give up! Great acting, great story setup for an analysis of human behavior. This is a hard to watch analysis of human nature, how easily we can betray our moral code, how easily we can betray those we love, the inhumanity humankind can inflict, dealing with trauma, dealing with having escaped trauma, our ability to deny our moral failings, and how potentially forgiving love can be. Wow have I missed anything? Yah, probably.

Jul 17, 2020

A mystery, sort of, it just struggles to hold attention, and the ending? meh, fails to deliver for me.

Apr 16, 2020

Phoenix é uma obra emocionante. A atuação de Nina Hoss é o maior marco do filme. Ela casa muito bem com a atmosfera e diz muito apenas com suas expressões faciais, que são quase hipnotizantes. É impossível não simpatizar com ela, visto o que ela passou e o que a aguardava. Cada sorriso ou olhar sucinto foi muito bem estudado e isso é magnifico. Os personagens foram muito bem desenvolvidos. Nina Kunzendorf entrega uma melancolia profunda, que com alguns sinais, já eram o suficiente para imaginar o que havia de vir. Ronald Zehrfeld é consistente e passa mesmo uma imagem de que está desesperado para sair daquela vida, mas de forma sucinta. O roteiro, junto a direção, trabalha muito bem com o psicológico da Nelly, e de acordo com o que vamos descobrindo junto a ela, ficamos cada vez mais aflitos quanto ao momento que ela se revelará. E que final, meus amigos... A condução de todo o plano foi maestral, e é de emocional qualquer um. O fato dela se soltar aos poucos toca na alma, e a reação do seu ex-marido demonstra muito bem a reação do publico ao ver esta cena. E um dos pontos a se mencionar: O filme acaba quando deve, sem mais nem menos, assim como a vida é, da forma mais nua e crua.

Dec 27, 2019

Good movie. Shows the aftermath of WW2 and the Holocaust.

May 13, 2019

Pretty average and very, very sub-Hitchcockian. It's all very implausible, maybe it's supposed to be a parable, but if it is it didn't work for me.

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