{"id":9940,"date":"2015-07-24T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9940"},"modified":"2015-07-21T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T13:49:36","slug":"phoenix-2014-christian-petzold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9940","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had to see this since I also just watched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9863\">Obsession<\/a><\/em>, another semi-remake of <em>Vertigo<\/em>.  Nina Hoss (star of Petzold&#8217;s <em>Barbara<\/em> and <em>Jerichow<\/em>), of a rich family, escaped the holocaust but is presumed dead.  She has actually had reconstructive facial surgery and looks like a different person, but still obsesses over her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld of <em>Beloved Sisters<\/em> and <em>The Pasta Detectives<\/em>) even though he may have saved himself by giving her up to the nazis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/phoenix1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Most of the movie is the tension of wondering how she could be so stupid to return to Johnny, leading to the very satisfying ending when she reveals her true self, thus claiming her family&#8217;s fortune while rejecting Johnny, who has been a slimeball the entire movie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/phoenix2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Petzold also made my second-favorite of the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8479\">Dreileben<\/a><\/em> trilogy (what&#8217;s Dominik Graf up to these days?).  The final film by late cowriter Harun Farocki &#8211; my only previous experience with him was an essay film better talked about than watched.<\/p>\n<p>A. Nayman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s remarkable about <em>Phoenix<\/em> is how its Farockian didacticism &#8211; the fact that Nelly would rather try to reclaim her place and her identity in a German society that tried to exterminate her rather than go with Lene to settle in Palestine &#8211; is blended into its drama so that it becomes a film of ideas that is also a film of emotions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had to see this since I also just watched Obsession, another semi-remake of Vertigo. Nina Hoss (star of Petzold&#8217;s Barbara and Jerichow), of a rich family, escaped the holocaust but is presumed dead. She has actually had reconstructive facial surgery and looks like a different person, but still obsesses over her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1678,1269,122,392,30,472],"class_list":["post-9940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-christian-petzold","tag-false-death","tag-germany","tag-harun-farocki","tag-identity","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10040,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions\/10040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}