Miroirs No. 3
Past and present collide in this sly psychodrama by German auteur and Hitchcock enthusiast Christian Petzold (PHEONIX, BARBARA). Laura (Paula Beer), a young woman from Berlin, survives a countryside car crash before she gradually enters the fold of a mysterious, pained family. Shot with clean and crisp natural light by Petzold’s longtime director of photography Hans Fromm and superbly acted by an ensemble of regulars, Miroirs No. 3 continues the filmmaker’s thematic exploration of trauma, memory, myth, and identity in a tale that is simultaneously haunted and enchanted. Its pleasurable tonal shifts owe much to the film’s rich cinematic, literary, and art historical allusions, as well as its inspired use of diegetic music, from Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to the titular Ravel composition, a piece that is shimmery and suggestive: of ripples, danger, and isolation. With its many motifs of breakage and repair and of doubling (à la Vertigo), Miroirs No. 3 wrings a taut psychological charge from the tension between the mirror and its reflection, one in which tenderness and subtle humour trouble its distortion. Showcased at TIFF in 2025, this film is part of our Arthouse Auteur series.DramaPT1H26MPaula Beer
Barbara Auer
Matthias Brandt
Christian Petzold
Claudia Tronnier
Caroline von Senden
Julius Windhorst
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