Afire (German: Roter Himmel, lit. 'Red Sky') is a 2023 German drama film directed by Christian Petzold , starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer , Langston Uibel and Enno Trebs. The relationship drama focuses on four people sharing a holiday home on the Baltic Sea .

Afire: Directed by Christian Petzold. With Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs. A group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.

2023年8月25日 · “I wanted to make a movie about summer, life, complexity, passion, desire,” says German director Christian Petzold of his dreamy new feature, Afire. When I spoke to Christian Petzold for Undine in 2021, he described how his next film would be The Happy Ones, a forest-set romance based on his X-rated Covid hallucinations.

2023年3月20日 · Afire is a modernist melodrama in classic Petzold style—swooning romance and crushing disaster are pared down to the sleek, spare gestures of an unfeeling capitalist world—but it’s also the filmmaker’s funniest and strangest film yet, one that swaps the mysteries of fate for something closer to postmodern farce.

2023年7月14日 · Early in this entirely engrossing drama from German writer/director Christian Petzold, Leon, an extremely peevish young novelist played as a kind of encyclopedia of misery by Thomas Schubert, asks his friend Felix about a portfolio he’s working on as an

2023年7月15日 · The film "Afire" won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. It is the latest film from Christian Petzold, the acclaimed German director of "Phoenix" and other films.

2023年7月12日 · With its genre-adjacent premise, barbed character interplay, sharply chiseled performances and portents of meteorological disaster, “Afire” might be Petzold’s most accessible work in some time.

2023年7月14日 · Christian Petzold, Afire, 2023, film still. Courtesy: Sideshow and Janus Films. EF Afire is about the battle between leisure and labour, but also mental health. As a filmmaker, how do you take care of yourself?

2023年2月22日 · Wincingly well-observed and acidly funny, the German auteur's latest sees a young writer taking out his creative insecurities on everyone in his path — and that's before the fires begin.