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- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Anche qui, come ne La scelta di Barbara, il finale toglie letteralmente il fiato.
- [New – 2/18/16] | Sean Axmaker @ Stream On Demand
- Excerpt: Just as the title suggests, Phoenix (2014) is about rising from the ashes, but filmmaker Christian Petzold is more interested than the smudged moral world in the ashes of Germany after World War II than in the promise of the rise.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …not only a cinephile’s treasure trove, a throwback to the film’s of the forties touched with a modern sensibility, but a canny psychological portrait of a defeated country.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [I]t’s engrossing enough to keep the doubts about the story itself at bay.
- John Gilpatrick @ JohnLikesMovies.com
- Excerpt: One of the best foreign films of the year is this Hitchcock-esque drama about a woman who goes to hell, comes back, and ultimately tells those who sent her there, “You can’t change me.”
- Hugo Gomes @ Cinematograficamente Falando … [Portuguese]
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Phoenix’ takes a dual meaning when a woman is reincarnated after a disfiguring incident and finds her estranged husband employed at a nightclub of the same name.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Director Christian Petzold keeps questions unanswered until the end on purpose as Nina goes in search of her former self and for truth. Just simmer for awhile in the pensive mood.
- Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
- Carson Lund @ Are The Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: To watch Phoenix is to be put in the position of an investigator analyzing the psychological import of the most microscopic of gestures. Historical insight and cinematic sophistication, coexisting in a tight bind that puts neither on a platform, rarely synchronize with such tremendous grace.
- Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Nina Hoss is the bauss. The ever-enigmatic German actress gives a powerhouse performance as Nelly, the fiercely seductive survivor of Christian Petzold’s post-war drama Phoenix.
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: It doesn’t take much probing to find the plot of Vertigo in this tense, beautifully played film noir. Johnny instructs Nelly in how to look and sound like his lost wife, and she proves as apt a pupil as Kim Novak was for Jimmy Stewart.
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A simple but powerrful parable of rebirth including love, loss, betrayal, guilt and greed in a post-war Germany where the enormities of the Holocaust are still immediate and unresolved.
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: A thoroughly entertaining movie that probes our most painful history and provides a scalpel of a plot.
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