Opens June 4 in cinemas where open and via virtual cinema. Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree and Jacob Matschenz. Directed and written by Christian Petzold. It’s an audacious conceit, but not a persuasive or cathartic story. That means, in an academic sense, you can appreciate the audacious way Petzold has matched this fractured tragic fairy tale to the history of Berlin, a capital divided, re-attached, and then reanimated into a modern Franken-burg. One can see clear linkages between Undine to the nightmare weirdness of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, though it’s as if this similar story were drained of its passionate momentum and rendered abstract. Petzold is a filmmaker of seductive skill, who weaves a paranoid atmosphere with unsettling landscape shots, odd intimacy, and taut tension. Reviewers were understandably more qualified in their enthusiasm about the film as a whole. When Undine premiered at Berlinale last year, it won the international critics’ prize and a Silver Bear for Beer’s performance, for her double role as the sensible historian and passionate water spirit. Versions of the story of the water nymph and the mortal man have inspired not only the Disney film, but musical compositions, ballet, and movies from Ron Howard’s Splash to Neil Jordan’s Irish fairy tale, Ondine. The aquarium is available in various sizes for floor, wall, table, bar, counter. If touched the fish try to escape or follow the movements of a person. It is a lot of fun to play with the fish. 62, Akvarium-AQH (Aquarium-AQH), Study of the Effects of Spaceflight. Inside the interactive virtual aquarium fish, water and other genuine sea creatures react to any of movements of a person. It was preceded by Petzold’s apparent source, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s 1811 novella, Undine, about a water nymph who falls in love with a mortal man, which allows her to gain a soul, but shortens her life.Īs a kicker, if he abandons her, she will kill him and return to the water. NASA Johnson Space Center, Robotics Systems Technology Branch, Houston, TX. Most of us know 19th-century Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. The title offers some clues to the film’s more fantastical elements. Getting your bearings is effectively impossible. An apparent murder, echoed by a drowning accident, a miraculous recovery, and more drowning. Petzold’s elliptical style, devoid of exposition, quickly spins into the hysteria of melodrama. The movie, in a sense, slips under and into dreams, visions, supernatural events. He lives in another town, and she travels by train to joins him on a dive. Appropriately for their damp introduction, Christoph works as an “industrial diver,” repairing turbines on the river floor.
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