For the past 25 years, in heralded films like Barbara, Phoenix, and Transit, acclaimed German director Christian Petzold has charted the boundary between the living and the dead, the real and the ...

The films of Christian Petzold are haunted, populated by specters trapped between different worlds and realms, and in the German auteur's latest, the appearance of such a figure destabilizes a rural ...

Another of Petzold's masterful tales about ghosts, transitions, and the links between then and now, the drama—which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and arrives in U.S. theaters on March 20—is a ...