2023-04-20 09:59:39
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With “Red Sky” with Paula Beer, Christian Petzold has once more shot one of the films of the year – it would be great if as many people as possible noticed.
“Red Sky” by Christian Petzold was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlinale – and the German Film Academy was not worth a single (!) nomination for the German Film Prize. This is a scandal in itself, which shows once once more how badly the film academy needs reform and how little knowledge the members and managers there have of really good films. Any bet that at the awards ceremony on May 12, the boring, ultra-brutal and yet multiple Oscar-winning “Nothing new in the West” will almost be the prize and the backslapping in the German cinema industry will echo as far away as Los Angeles …
“Red Sky”: Christian Petzold at his best
Petzold’s wonderful, gentle summer film should therefore be named all the more emphatically as one of the (German) films of the year. Various people meet in a summer house on the Baltic Sea. There is the writer Leon (Thomas Schubert, King of Stonks), who wants to finish his book because the editor (Matthias Brandt) has announced himself. There is Leon’s buddy Felix (Langston Uibel), there comes Nadja (for the third time in a row at Petzold the female lead: Paula Beer, Undine) with her lover Devid (Enno Trebs), who is also interested in Felix, while Leon falls in love with Nadja and actually has to put something down on paper – and in the summer heat the forest nearby starts to burn; the reddish shimmering flames in the distance are subtle metaphors for the feelings and desires that consume the protagonists, just as fire eats up wood…
As always with Petzold, by Jerichow (Film noir, romance film) and Yella (Scary Movie, Business Drama) regarding Phoenix (melodrama, psychological thriller) to “Undine” (fairy tale film) the inspirations and role models for “Red Sky” are also numerous and of immense, once more, subtlety. Our author Matthias Jordan mentions in his review “Shilling”, “Tanz der Teufel” and “Call me by your name”, and almost every French summer film should also have been the godfather.
Here is our detailed review of the film and all screenings in your city.
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