Transit (2018)
Directed by Christian Petzold
In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.
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Less obvious than TV’s The Handmaid’s Tale, not as visceral as Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, and with definite echoes of Michael Curtiz’ classic Casablanca, Transit is its own creature, by turns heartrending and horrifying.
It's certainly an understandable decision (and a familiar one to anyone who's seen Jack Nicholson in The Passenger), but it leads to a series of lies and deceptions that will have ripple effects on not just him but seemingly everyone he comes into contact with: a deaf and mute North African mother with a sickly young child; the desperate souls waiting in line at the Mexican consulate for their prayers of deliverance to be answered; and the dead author's in-the-dark wife (Paula Beer) who waits in vain for her husband's return.
Told in an unrushed manner and utilizing eloquent narration, Transit builds slowly, the horrors off-screen more palpable than any of the ones graphically shown in, say, Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge.