Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Petzold ci restituisce spesso piccoli dettagli di una quotidianità ossessiva e opprimente, ma non perde mai di vista il quadro complessivo del racconto, come avviene nella scena del quadro di Rembrandt.
- Joshua Brunsting @ CriterionCast
- [New - 5/2] | Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Un relato seco y sin adornos, sobre las dificultades que implicaba vivir en la Alemania comunista
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …a slow building character study where looks and actions speak louder than words because of an oppressive political climate.
- Kenji Fujishima @ The House Next Door
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Subtly intriguing and ambiguous, it’s filled with suspicion and subterfuge.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFiiosopher.com
- Excerpt: An odd mutedness and puzzling lack of urgency frustrate the mood of Orwellian horror…
- Danny King @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: From Barbara’s rust-colored favorite sweater to the amber beauty of the interiors, ‘Barbara’ consistently strings us along with a tempered command, and the film, I think, will therefore likely test the attention span of a certain number of viewers. But there’s no shortage of pleasure in sticking around here, because the more concretely the film becomes about Barbara’s struggles between two worlds — and the sugar-sweet love story that will impact her decision — the more strikingly personal the story becomes for the viewer.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
- Ed Whitfield @ The Ooh Tray
- Excerpt: A review of Christian Petzgold’s GDR drama, opening in UK cinemas today.
- Ron Wilkinson @ MonstersandCritics.com
- Excerpt: Christian Petzold’s latest thriller threatens to cross over the line from minimalism to nihilism.
- George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd [Greek]
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