Nina Hoss
From pensive and meditative to egotistically powerful, Todd Field’s Tár is a film for the senses.
The film focuses on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female conductor of a major German orchestra.
Katrin Gebbe’s Pelikanblut is a balance of dramatically written material and an underbelly of deliciously spooky horror.
Transit finds Christian Petzold on the same end of the telescope as his previous films, but looking through a more sophisticated, evolved tool with a wider view of the medium.