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WEDNESDAY, OCT 25 | 7:15 PM | BB
In Christian Petzold’s (Phoenix; Transit) newest romance, fires ravage the countryside while passions amongst a group of young people smolder at a vacation hideaway. Over a hot, dry summer, two friends decamp to the seaside: one to finish his novel, and the other to complete his photography portfolio. An initially elusive houseguest awaits them there, Nadja (Paula Beer), who makes love noisily in the night and leaves a messy kitchen in the morning. The close quarters of the three ignites feelings of insecurity, lust, joy, and even love. In the distance, forest fires burn, encroaching ever closer on their summer getaway. The scorching second installment to Petzold’s “Elements Trilogy,” after his watery Undine (2021), is a humorous, biting send-up of artistic self-involvement and intellectual pretensions, set within the loose and sultry atmosphere of a summer holiday but throbbing with the urgency of impending annihilation. ~TW