Tag Archives: Nina Hoss

Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (Valkeapää, 2019), Pelican Blood (Gebbe, 2019), and Boys From County Hell (Baugh, 2020)

J-P Valkeapää’s Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is really surprising. Not only for its subject matter, but for how quickly the writer/director is able to get into a complex story. SPOILERS below. The beginning has an air of Don’t Look Now. … Continue reading

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Phoenix (Petzold, 2015) and Youth (Shoval, 2013)

Here’s another candidate for the best of 2015. Cristian Petzold’s Phoenix is great. So restrained and tense, it also reaffirms that Nina Hoss is one of the best actors currently working. It’s best to go into this film without much knowledge … Continue reading

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