Phoenix (The Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Phoenix (The Criterion Collection)Genre: DramaLabel: CRITERION COLLECTION: PHOENIXDescription: This evocative and haunting drama set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945 is like no other film about post World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz a former cabaret singer (A Most Wanted Man s Nina Hoss in a dazzling multilayered performance) her face disfigured and reconstructed returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that s as richly metaphorical as it is preposterously engrossing. Revenge film or tale of romantic reconciliation? One doesn t know until the superb closing scene of this marvel from Christian Petzold (the Oscar-nominated Barbara) perhaps the most important figure in contemporary German cinema.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES- New 4K digital master with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack- New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss- New interview with cinematographer Hans Fromm- New documentary featuring on-set interviews from 2013 with Petzold Hoss actors Nina Kunzendorf and Ronald Zehrfeld and production designer Kade Gruber- Trailer- New English subtitle translation- PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Koresky