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| Gespenster, Germany/France 2005 |
A French woman’s search for her kidnapped child intersects, almost randomly, with the lives of two teenage girls, drifters, on the run from the authorities. Could one of them be the missing child? Set in the lazy heat of Berlin in midsummer, and starring name-to-watch Julia Hummer, it’s a work of extraordinary precision and – as ever with Christian Petzold - an uncanny, almost mystical force, gently intimating not only the mysteries of human behaviour, but the inexorable pull of destiny. Carefully understated, technically flawless, it confirms its maker as the most talented and consistently fascinating German filmmaker of his generation. — Edinburgh International Film Festival ‘Inspired’ by a Grimm brothers fairytale, Ghosts tells of a mother obsessed with finding her lost, probably kidnapped, child, whom she thinks she recognises in a girl she sees on the streets. The girl has no real past, a life full of holes, but she looks just like the long-lost daughter might appear now (the mother has a computer-generated projection based on an old photograph – not an exact science, more an act of faith). And the mother needs to believe; the girl would like a taste of all she knows others have; and her friend, another girl on the margins and close to the brink, is envious of her prospects. The stage is set for a drama of betryal. — Olaf Müller, Sight & Sound |
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