Paula Beer, the elusive siren of German cinema

It seems like forever.

In mid-March, four days from unimaginable confinement, Paula Beer squeezed your hand without blinking and was astonished at our admiration for her crossing of the Rhine despite the growing concern.

The precocious German actress cumulates, at only 25 years old, a prize for the best young actress in Venice, a nomination for the César of the best hope for

, the post-Great War drama of François Ozon, and since the end of February, a bear of money for

, to which she lends her serene and impenetrable grace.

Like his warm responses which raise more questions than certainties.

Christian Petzold's strange and contemplative modern tale revisits the myth of the aquatic creature: condemned to be loved by men in order to live among them and to kill whoever betrays her before returning to the water.

This Ondine is full of the absolute and of hope.

Christian Petzold makes her mistress of her story and her femininity, far from the diktat of men

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In today's Berlin, Ondine is a city historian.

When she is left by Johannes, her world falters.

But his retribution is stopped

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