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In the Fade
Winner! Best Actress, 2017 Cannes Film Festival - Diane Kruger
Winner! Best Foreign Language Film - Golden Globes, Broadcast Film Critics, New York Film Critics Online
Out of nowhere, Katja’s life falls apart when her husband Nuri and little son Rocco are killed in a bomb attack. Her friends and family try to give her the support she needs, and Katja somehow manages to make it through the funeral. But the mind numbing search for the perpetrators and reasons behind the senseless killing complicate Katja’s painful mourning, opening wounds and doubts. Danilo, a lawyer and Nuri’s best friend, represents Katja in the eventual trial against the two suspects: a young couple from the neo-Nazi scene. The trial pushes Katja to the edge, but there’s simply no alternative for her: she wants justice.
Germany | France, 2017, 106 minutes, In German, Greek, & English with English subtitles, Rated R, Directed by Fatih Akin
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"A thriller made riveting by an emotional performance from Diane Kruger."
- Deborah Young, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER -
"Urgent, gripping and, today, so very affecting."
- David Sexton, LONDON EVENING STANDARD -
"Diane Kruger's raw, real-as-it-gets performance as a grieving woman bent on vengeance in the German thriller 'In the Fade' grabs from the get-go and never lets loose its grip"
- Joe Dziemianowicz, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS -
"Gripping, compelling... Kruger gives an extraordinarily deep and passionate performance."
- John Powers, VOGUE -
"Ms. Kruger... leaves a vivid, haunting impression."
- A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES -
"Viscerally affecting... A starkly intimate character study that swerves into vigilante thriller-dom,"
- Leah Greenblatt, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY