Petzold finds himself in Éric Rohmer territory in a quasi-comedy about bed-swapping, forest fires, and the pretensions of fiction writing. Christian Petzold finds himself somewhere between the lands ...

Wincingly well-observed and acidly funny, the German auteur's latest sees a young writer taking out his creative insecurities on everyone in his path — and that's before the fires begin. And then ...

Leon (Thomas Schubert), the exasperated — and exasperating — young writer at the heart of the superb German drama “Afire,” has a mesmerizingly punchable scowl. It’s a scowl that rarely leaves your ...

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The filmmaker trades the capital-H history of “Phoenix” and romantic fantasy of “Undine” for a more subdued — and sometimes surprisingly funny — character study. “Something is wrong,” says tortured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few movies this year will be as quietly sizzling as German filmmaker Christian Petzold’s “Afire,” a novelistic and sophisticated ...