The so-called new golden age of television may be in progress in the United States, but there's one thing American TV doesn’t have: Dominik Graf. The German director of several great features made for the cinema—including the superior Die Hard-in-the-brd Die Katze (1988), the sprawling special forces drama Die Sieger (1994), the wild Dv melodrama A Map of the Heart (2002), and, most recently, the rich and exuberant Schiller ménage à trois, Beloved Sisters (2014)—can most often and most productively be found across his career making films for German television.Consistently have difficulties with both the funding and reception of his theatrical features—no doubt due to Graf’s dense and elaborately articulated storytelling style, which fiercely intertwines the social and political urgency of his settings with the thrilling pleasures of genre cinema rooted in the 1970s’ critical skepticism of Germany’s status quo—the filmmaker has turned again and again...
- 3/19/2018
- MUBI
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