Here's a 2005 German film that's now making its way around the indie theatre circuit in the U.S.:
Antibodies
Grade: B
Though burdened by some predictable plot twists and excruciatingly obvious biblical symbolism, this slick thriller by young German director Christian Alvart is a worthy homage to serial killer classics like The Silence of the Lambs and Fritz Lang’s M. When a sex offender and child killer finally winds up in prison, he gradually corrupts the morals of an upright farmer who interrogates him about an unsolved murder. The film’s critical and commercial success in Europe scored Alvart a Hollywood gig directing Renée Zellweger in Case 39, a horror movie due out this summer.
posted by Stephen @ 1:10 AM
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Speaking of German films, have you seen "The Lives of Others"? It's a subtle meditation on government interfering in artists' lives, and the crucial importance of art in society/culture. Very moving in that poetic, dark, refreshingly un-Hollywood way of foreign films.
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