'Fatherland' Review: Pawel Pawlikowski's Postwar Road Movie Starring Sandra Hüller
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Ryan Lattanzio
An everything bagel for the brain. Substantive, layered, well-seasoned.
Summary
Pawel Pawlikowski's latest film "Fatherland" is a melancholy black-and-white road movie set in 1949 Germany, following author Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika (played by Sandra Hüller) as they travel from U.S.-operated Frankfurt to Soviet-run Weimar. The film continues Pawlikowski's signature austere, rigorously crafted style with its Academy aspect ratio and fatalistic themes, offering a postwar portrait of a divided Germany through the lens of the Mann family's journey.
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About as sentimental as any film by the Polish auteur gets — which is to say not at all, despite one long-delayed tear finally shed — it's another austere, rigorously crafted odyssey through European
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