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By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com Guides to Independent Film since 1999

Review: Yella

Friday May 16, 2008

Christian Petzold, proud member of the "Berlin School" of young German filmmaking, won the Silver Bear with the moody tale of a rootless woman who joins forces with a roving venture capitalist. Yella is a richly textured allegory of lust, greed, loneliness, and desire set in the rural East of Germany. It also features a mesmerizing lead performance by Nina Hoss (also awarded with a Silver Bear) and the most obvious, superfluous, and all-around maddening trick ending in memory. Yella opens today at Cinema Village. Read Jürgen's review.

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