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Mirrors No. 3

Film|New Films from Germany

Two women riding on a bicycle in casual dress and skirts, along a country road with field and blue sky behind them. Hans Fromm ©

A woman with her back to the camera looks onward to another woman, sitting in a red convertible, besides a man in the drivers seat who's face is also turned away. Christian Schulz ©

During a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura, a young piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives a shocking car crash. Awakening in a nearby house, Laura finds herself in the care of a local woman, who tends to her with motherly devotion. As she recuperates, Laura begins to integrate herself into the lives of the woman and her initially reluctant husband and son. By turns haunted and hopeful, Laura and her adopted family reawaken to the world and come to find a strange harmony together. However, they cannot outrun the ghosts of the past, which begin to stir, as acclaimed director Christian Petzold (PHOENIX, TRANSIT) spins a modern gothic fairytale about the lies we tell ourselves and the strange ways that grief, connection, and humanity bind and sustain us.


Directed by: Christian Petzold
Germany 2025
DCP, 86 min

 

 

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