Recommendations of the Editorial team
The piano student Laura (Paula Beer) does not really work, this becomes clear in the first scenes of Christian Petzold’s new film. Lost lost around Berlin on the outskirts of Berlin; The excursion to the countryside that her boyfriend has planned, she only agrees with compulsory debt. There will be a devastating accident that turns her life upside down.
Under the impression of the events, she arrives at Betty (Barbara Auer), who lives somewhere in the Uckermark in a lonely house. The two women don’t know each other, but something seems to combine them. Laura enjoys calm and seclusion, the silent work on the house and garden, with which she supports Betty.
But the neighbors whisper from the nearby village when they see the two women and as Betty their husband, Richard (Matthias Brandt), and their son, Max (Enno Trebs), invites you to eat, the two are anything but enthusiastic. The cause of the restraint is gradually emerging.
Christian Petzold had recently proven a homage to the French summer film with “Red Heaven”. “Miroir No. 3” looks like a complementary work. If the disaster was at the end, it takes place here at the beginning. If the main character felt the burden of life on school, she puts it off here.
Once again Petzold relies on proven staff with a shiny Paula Beer in the center. The inner freedom of her figure faces the pain that is on Betty’s family. The fact that there is a lot of repair in their house and garden is how much to understand in this film.
“Miroirs No. 3” can be accused of not telling his stories. But some things remain puzzling and eludes rationality.