A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.
Both will remind movie fans of midcentury foreign films in which artists such as Jean-Luc Godard and Federico Fellini gave us tales of mad, inexplicable love like “Breathless” and “La Dolce Vita.”
There are talented filmmakers that can make the most out of the 4:3 aspect ratio, like Robbie Ryan‘s cinematography in Andrea Arnold‘s road trip drama American Honey , in which the film makes the world seem larger than life.
Recent notable films like “Good Bye, Lenin!” (2003), “The Lives of Others” (2006), “The Debt” (2010), and “Bridge of Spies” (2015) feature this schizophrenic German city, as an integral character of their narratives, one that physically separates democracy from communism.