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Fatherland movie review: Sandra Huller shines in a haunting masterpiece of a divided Germany

The Indian Express·Shubhra Gupta·18 days ago
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Lukasz Zal, Hanns Zischler, Pawel Pawlikowski, Sandra Huller and August Diehl were seen the Cannes premiere of Fatherland. Fatherland movie review: Black-and-white frames can be rendered either warm or cool, depending on what you’re going for. Pawel Pawlikowski manages to combine stateliness and intimacy in his signature look, where both those colours are given several shades of grey. As soon as ‘Fatherland’ (Cannes competition) begins, in which unfolds a fraught chapter of the famous author Thomas Mann’s life and times, we know we are back in Pawel territory. It is 1949. Mann (Hanss Zischer), who had fled Nazi Germany for the US, is back, readying for the Goethe prize to be conferred upon him.…

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