We’re going out on a limb and saying it plainly: Christian Petzold is one of the finest and most consistently compelling filmmakers working in film today.
While his first five features never received U.S. theatrical release, he broke through to American arthouse audiences with BARBARA in 2012, introducing many to the extraordinary Nina Hoss.
He followed with PHOENIX and TRANSIT, before beginning a new creative collaboration with Paula Beer in UNDINE and AFIRE.
Now, Petzold and Beer reunite for the light and luminous MIROIRS NO. 3. Inspired by the Maurice Ravel piano suite, the film is an impressionistic meditation on one of Petzold’s central themes—recovery from trauma—told with a delightfully human touch that will leave audiences full of hope.
MIROIRS NO. 3 opened March 20 in New York and Los Angeles, and will be rolling out to theatres in the weeks that follow.
We hope our conversation with director Christian Petzold inspires you to get out to see the film.
That conversation on INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE —starting now.
