Wolfsburg
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
Sombre, measured, measured drama / german, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a boy on a bike and, instead of helping him, he drives away. As he has feelings of guilt, he tries to find out more about the accident’s victim.
Our read · Wolfsburg (2003) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · german entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Wolfsburg
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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