Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Petzold ci restituisce spesso piccoli dettagli di una quotidianità ossessiva e opprimente, ma non perde mai di vista il quadro complessivo del racconto, come avviene nella scena del quadro di Rembrandt.
- Joshua Brunsting @ CriterionCast
- [New – 12/19/13] | Enrique Buchichio @ Cartelera.com.uy [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Quizás el gran mérito de Christian Petzold (premiado como mejor director en el Festival de Berlín 2012) sea la construcción de un clima imperceptiblemente opresivo, de una red de desconfianza social que se extiende a todos los ámbitos de la vida cotidiana.
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Un relato seco y sin adornos, sobre las dificultades que implicaba vivir en la Alemania comunista
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …a slow building character study where looks and actions speak louder than words because of an oppressive political climate.
- Kenji Fujishima @ The House Next Door
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Subtly intriguing and ambiguous, it’s filled with suspicion and subterfuge.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFiiosopher.com
- Excerpt: An odd mutedness and puzzling lack of urgency frustrate the mood of Orwellian horror…
- Danny King @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: From Barbara’s rust-colored favorite sweater to the amber beauty of the interiors, ‘Barbara’ consistently strings us along with a tempered command, and the film, I think, will therefore likely test the attention span of a certain number of viewers. But there’s no shortage of pleasure in sticking around here, because the more concretely the film becomes about Barbara’s struggles between two worlds — and the sugar-sweet love story that will impact her decision — the more strikingly personal the story becomes for the viewer.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
- Ed Whitfield @ The Ooh Tray
- Excerpt: A review of Christian Petzgold’s GDR drama, opening in UK cinemas today.
- Ron Wilkinson @ MonstersandCritics.com
- Excerpt: Christian Petzold’s latest thriller threatens to cross over the line from minimalism to nihilism.
- George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd [Greek]
