The path forward from trauma or pain, full of tricky psychological detours, has often been a haunting theme in the films of Christian Petzold. His latest, Miroirs No. 3, centers on two women, one still working through a shattering loss and the other stuck in an existential malaise that may be rooted in her unsatisfying relationship or in more intangible factors. When the two strangers land in an unlikely domestic arrangement together, it initially seems restorative for them both. But neat and tidy dramas about emotional healing are not the gifted German writer-director’s thing.
Like Petzold’s superb Chekhovian chamber piece, Afire, from 2023, the new film unfolds in a seemingly peaceful countryside setting disrupted by jagged tensions and unsettling changes, by connections and misconnections among people with very different needs.
Miroirs No. 3 is less layered and surprising than its immediate predecessor in the director’s filmography, its moment of revelation...
Like Petzold’s superb Chekhovian chamber piece, Afire, from 2023, the new film unfolds in a seemingly peaceful countryside setting disrupted by jagged tensions and unsettling changes, by connections and misconnections among people with very different needs.
Miroirs No. 3 is less layered and surprising than its immediate predecessor in the director’s filmography, its moment of revelation...
- 5/17/2025
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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