Phoenix
Crit
It's Vertigo in postwar Berlin, a thoroughly implausible, thoroughly gripping melodrama. Nelly (Nina Hoss) is a camp survivor whose face was ripped by a gunshot, necessitating reconstructive surgery that makes her remarkably pretty but not herself. She sets off to find her beloved Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), despite her sister's (Nina Kunzendorf) reasonable suspicion that he's the one who betrayed Nelly.
So Johnny, in order to grab his dead wife's survivor's inheritance, remakes a woman into a woman from his past, not knowing that she actually is that woman from his past. Is Johnny simply a greedy cad, or is he just getting by as best he can in a kleptoeconomy, while pining for the woman he lost? And what was it Chekhov said about that gun?
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