The cinema of waiting, watching, and the spaces between words. Petzold builds suspense from ambiguity — his characters haunted by pasts they cannot articulate, his frames taut with what remains unsaid. German precision married to Hitchcockian dread, but the threat is always internal.
Christian Petzold
I wanted to make a summer movie like an Éric Rohmer film, where people are walking, talking, eating, and drinking. Chekhov was one of the first inspirations for Afire.