Archives
Edition 2019
Films
Tributes and Retrospectives - Christian Petzold
Drifter Tom dreams of escaping. After meeting Tina, he abandons her with a broken heart in Cuba. A while later, he tracks his ex-lover down and meets her in Berlin - but now, she is looking for revenge, and he wants to make it up to her and win her back. With the help of a guy named Jimmy, he goes on a desperate journey which takes them back to Cuba. Cuba Libre is one of Petzold’s most disheartening works, sharing a tale of lost and found love within human despair.
-
Cast:
Richy Müller, Catherine Flemming, Wolfram Berger -
Original Title:
Cuba Libre -
Country:
Germany -
Year:
1996 - 92 min Subtitles PT and EN
Director
Christian Petzold
Christian Petzold is a German filmmaker, known as Hitchcock’s successor as master of suspense. In 2000, he directed his first feature-film, The State I Am In, a story about a couple of two German left-wing terrorists, that granted him several awards, of which the German Film Award for Best Film. His next three films premiered at the Berlin Film Festival: Wolfsburg (2003), in the Panorama section, where it won the FIPRESCI award, Ghosts (2005) and Yella (2007, in the official competition. Bárbara (2012) earned him the award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In the work of Petzold, filmmaker of the “Berlin School”, characters recurrently hide fundamental truths about themselves, thus finding their inner self continuously divided. In paranoia and anxiety, his films tackle forms of productivity and individuality habitual of the neoliberal economic model, questioning the “flexibility” of the labour world, without ever resorting to clichés. His most recent feature-film Undine (2020) won the Silver Bear for Best Actress (Paula Beer) and finds itself competing in the 2020 edition of LEFFEST.