102 mins |
Rated
M
Directed by Christian Petzold
Starring Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Maryam Zaree, Matthias Brandt, Lilien Batman
Now playing $5 Wednesdays!
Academy Cinemas is excited to present an exclusive run of Christian Petzold's acclaimed follow-up to BARBARA (2012) & PHOENIX (2014). Selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.
In Christian Petzold’s (Barbara, Phoenix) haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers’s 1942 novel Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. As German troops begin to rapidly advance on Paris, he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming tangled in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie (Paula Beer). Making use of the uncanny parallels between historical fact and present-day, Petzold tells the story of a great love amid escape, exile and a longing for a place to call home.
"Set in a present-day Marseille occupied by phantoms from a wartime past, Transit is Christian Petzold’s follow-up to his sublime period pieces Barbara and Phoenix. Echoes of Casablanca, Kafka and Hitchcock reverberate around this coolly existential love story, which is also very much its own, unique thing: a haunting daylight noir whose characters, refugees seeking safe passage from a fascist threat, bewitch from the first frame to the last." — Tim Wong
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Now playing $5 Wednesdays!
Academy Cinemas is excited to present an exclusive run of Christian Petzold's acclaimed follow-up to BARBARA (2012) & PHOENIX (2014). Selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.
In Christian Petzold’s (Barbara, Phoenix) haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers’s 1942 novel Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. As German troops begin to rapidly advance on Paris, he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming tangled in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie (Paula Beer). Making use of the uncanny parallels between historical fact and present-day, Petzold tells the story of a great love amid escape, exile and a longing for a place to call home.
"Set in a present-day Marseille occupied by phantoms from a wartime past, Transit is Christian Petzold’s follow-up to his sublime period pieces Barbara and Phoenix. Echoes of Casablanca, Kafka and Hitchcock reverberate around this coolly existential love story, which is also very much its own, unique thing: a haunting daylight noir whose characters, refugees seeking safe passage from a fascist threat, bewitch from the first frame to the last." — Tim Wong