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Berlin Syndrome
Directed by
Cate Shortland
R
2017
1h 56m
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A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist awakens in a Berlin apartment one morning and is unable to leave.
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Cast of Berlin Syndrome
Teresa Palmer
Clare Havel
Max Riemelt
Andi Werner
Matthias Habich
Erich Werner
Emma Bading
Franka Hummels
Elmira Bahrami
Jana
Christoph Franken
Peter
Lucie Aron
Elodie Zadikan
Nassim Avat
Aron Hurwitz
Thuso Lekwape
Billy Dharma
Lara Marie Müller
Silke
Elias Esser
Boy 1
Claude Heinrich
Boy 2
Viktor Baschmakov
Benni
Matthias Russel
Jakob
Mascha Wolf
Mascha
René Barra
Coal Man
Malin Steffen
Swedish Girl
Maia Absberg
Bar Member
Cem Tuncay
Passenger
Morgane Ferru
Jesie Lamarque
Nadine Peschel
Mother
Charly Thorn
Young Woman
Sasha Selezneva
Natalie
Peter Young
Squatter
Kristina Kostiv
Russian Girl
Mariella Aumann
Young Girl
Engin Karavul
Stall Owner
Berlin Syndrome Ratings & Reviews
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
[Shortland] is expert and building a sense of dread and suspense while Palmer delivers a persuasive performance as a woman who has to summon the strength that she didn't know she had in order to escape.
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
Australian director Cate Shortland creates a dreamlike sense of place within a nightmare scenario with this taut and strongly acted thriller.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
A nasty piece of business tarted up with a stylish, high-gloss veneer.
AV Club
Katie Rife
Shortland's mise-en-scne, full of close-ups of bruised limbs and peeling paint, effectively enhances the grim realism of the scenario.
Slant Magazine
Christopher Gray
Until its hasty climax, the film is rewardingly patient and psychologically cogent.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A thriller whose genre moves are as precise as its underlying swirl of emotions are enigmatic.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
The movie identifies Ms. Shortland as a talent to watch. And it should constitute some kind of breakthrough for Ms. Palmer, who has not been given much of interest to do since she arrived in Hollywood a little over a decade ago.
NPR's Fresh Air
Justin Chang
Berlin Syndrome might look on the surface like a polished B-movie, a crafty and violent tale of a woman in captivity; but it's also the rare psychological thriller that feels not just taut and gripping, but genuinely exploratory.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
We start to feel like we're drowning in atmosphere, and it gets harder and harder to stay interested in what happens next.
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
Telling the story of a psychopath and his sex-slave, the film balances the clinical and visceral.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
Berlin Syndrome is a discomforting psychological thriller. It's discomforting in an effective way ... As for the psychology, it skimps perhaps a bit too much.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
This is a case of expert filmmaking craft applied to a familiar story that becomes unrelentingly grim and drawn-out after its masterful setup.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Between more trickily opaque stretches of character development, Shortland nails a handful of straight-up, nerve-shredding tension sequences, teasing a version of the film that might have tilted into full-bore horror.
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
A psychological thriller that's expertly put together but, in the end, doesn't bring enough twists to its rather predictable plot trajectory.
indieWire
Kate Erbland
Shortland serves up something that's got plenty of bite to it, and Palmer gladly tears into it
Washington City Paper
Tricia Olszewski
The end is a bit anticlimactic, but that's a quibble considering Shortland achieves something rare: making a thriller feel fresh.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
This stylish cautionary tale about foreigners in strange lands manages to generate consistent suspense within an intriguing moral framework while avoiding genre pitfalls.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Palmer and Shortland keep audiences on the edge of their seat for a bit too long (there's a tighter version within this nearly two-hour one) but this is still a confident, interesting thriller.
Film Inquiry
Laura Birnbaum
Sex is officially scary again.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
Works against all odds, managing to preserve the sickness of the situation while remaining attentive to the needs of suspense and depths of sophisticated characterization.
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