Discover What’s Streaming On: Some stories develop and new details are discovered within them over time. In this week’s new movies on VOD, there are several retellings of tales, both classic and new, ...

It seems, at first glance, a dismayingly insubstantial work for the maker of such discomfiting German cultural and political critiques as Yella (2007), Barbara (2012), Phoenix (2014), and Transit ...

There are two possibilities for watching this film: by viewing the female protagonist as a water spirit from European mythology living in the present, or by viewing her as an ordinary woman named ...

A haunting, if also not quite entirely successful mix of modern love story and the Twilight Zone, “Undine” invokes German history and folklore in this tale of the love affair of a historian at a ...

In European folklore, an undine is a female water spirit—sometimes called a selkie or naiad—that has the unfortunate habit of taking human form and falling in love with mortals. According to legend, ...

In the opening moments of Christian Petzold’s masterfully murky ninth feature, we learn several things about the titular Undine (Paula Beer). She lives in Berlin, she’s a historian who lectures on the ...

“If you leave me, I have to kill you,” Undine (Paula Beer) tell her boyfriend Johannes (Jacob Matshenz) when he is breaking up with her to be with another woman. This scene opens Christian Petzold’s ...

German auteur Christian Petzold returns to the Berlinale competition for the fifth time with 'Undine.' By Boyd van Hoeij The myth of Undine, the water nymph who has to kill her lover should he ever ...

"An enigmatic and hypnotic modern fairy tale." IFC Films has released a new official US trailer for the German indie romance film titled Undine, from filmmaker Christian Petzold (of Barbara, Phoenix, ...

The mythologies created by humans—across eras and cultures—have always been stories that help us try to make sense of our own existence. They're a code to be cracked, though not always a difficult one ...