Miroirs No.3

A car crash survivor enters into an unsettling bond with the older woman who rescues her, in Christian Petzold’s characteristically enigmatic drama.

On a remote German country-road, pianist Laura survives a car crash that kills her partner. Though unharmed, she is in a quasi-catatonic daze. Taken in by Betty, an older local woman, Laura becomes a willing blank canvas onto which the stranger dotes her motherly care.

Christian Petzold (Afire) delivers a sharply written and gripping study of loss and trauma, and the fragile human connections that make reinvention possible.