Films

After surviving a car accident, Laura, a piano student from Berlin, is taken in by a bystander. The woman welcomes Laura into her home and tends to her attentively, even with her own familial tensions looming in the background. Laura slowly integrates into the family, but something is amiss. 

This psychological drama marks the fourth collaboration between celebrated German director Christian Petzold (Afire, Barbara, Undine) and actress Paula Beer. Titled after Maurice Ravel’s composition, the film’s mysterious diegetic music underscores Petzold’s signature bare-bones filmmaking and suspenseful character depth. Paired with subtle moments of humor, Mirrors No. 3 is a haunting story with beautifully raw performances from the entire cast.

“Mellifluous, melodious and mysterious in equal measure”
-David Jenkins, Little White Lies

“A beguiling psychodrama about familial fractures, slippery identity,
and the difficult means by which people move on from tragedy.”
-Nick Schager, The Daily Beast