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Yella
Directed by
Christian Petzold
Not Rated
2007
90m
Drama
,
Romance
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6.7
82%
54%
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Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.
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Cast of Yella
Nina Hoss
Yella Fichte
Devid Striesow
Philipp
Hinnerk Schönemann
Ben
Burghart Klaußner
Dr. Gunthen
Barbara Auer
Barbara Gunthen
Christian Redl
Yellas Vater
Selin Bademsoy
Dr. Gunthens Tochter
Wanja Mues
Sprenger
Michael Wittenborn
Dr. Schmidt-Ott
Martin Brambach
Dr. Fritz
Joachim Nimtz
Prietzel
Peter Benedict
Dr. Friedrichs Anwalt Oliver
Ian Norval
Receptionist
Peter Knaack
Insolvency Administrator
Thomas Giese
Cashier
Yella Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Yella is a reserved young woman with unrevealed depths of intelligence, larceny and passion. Their gradual revelation makes this more than an ordinary thriller, in great part because of the performance of Nina Hoss in the title role.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Yella is the kind of movie that tantalizes the mind with possibilities without solving the puzzle.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Christian Petzold's disquieting German thriller feels modest while you're watching it, but makes a stronger-than-expected impact.
Seattle Times
Mark Rahner
An import non-thriller so enigmatic and subtle that it's inert.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
This crisply made thriller begins as a harrowing tale of a young German woman stalked by her deranged ex-husband, but quickly turns into an investigation of the murkier depths of capitalism.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
This unusual film has all the appearance of simply being a well-done drama, but there is considerably more on writer-director Christian Petzold's mind.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Makes for interesting viewing.
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
The German offering Yella begins with an utterly gripping first 15 minutes, follows with a passable drama and ends with a big disappointment.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Far less concerned with character development than with bludgeoning clues to the drama's true nature.
Film Comment Magazine
Chris Darke
Petzold, a leading light of the current generation of young German filmmakers, succeeds in making the modern world strange again.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Strikes a perfect balance between corporate intrigue and metaphysical mystery; his 2007 drama is filled with suspense but ends in delicious ambiguity.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Sara Cardace
It's one of those films that keeps swirling in your brain once it's done -- thanks both to its somewhat unresolved ending and to the many subtle themes touched on throughout.
Variety
Derek Elley
German writer-director Christian Petzold returns to top form in Yella, another precision-helmed, tightly wound, metaphysical thriller that confirms him as one of Germany's finest middle-generation directors.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An edgy, intellectual and enigmatic dream-like metaphysical thriller about living in post-reunification contemporary German as a venture capitalist.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
Yella is a strange beast: a twisty, slightly surreal mystery wrapped around the tedious art of the business deal.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
The twist ending that softens the blow of this otherwise unique and atmospheric work is not for me to ruin, but it should be said that it shows a chink in the filmmaker's armor
Oregonian
Stan Hall
While too lean and unassuming to provide real chills, Yella is a cool, disorienting trip, a meditation on death and the complexity of the human brain.
L.A. Weekly
Scott Foundas
[A] tightly controlled metaphysical horror movie.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
Yella clamps down on the viewer with a psychological hold that doesn't immediately reveal itself.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
This German rip-off of Herk Harvey's 1962 Carnival of Souls replaces the junky eeriness of the original with a disassociated pretentiousness that is more irritating than creepy.
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