Ep. 165: Berlin 2023 Four with Jessica Kiang: Petzold's Afire, Reality, The Shadowless Tower, The Survival of Kindness

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. We continue with the latest and greatest from the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. For my latest episode, I chat with critic Jessica Kiang who is writing for Variety and The New York Times. We consider this year’s festival and discuss Christian Petzold’s Afire, Tina Satter’s Reality starring Sydney Sweeney, Zhang Lu’s The Shadowless Tower, and Rolf de Heer’s The Survival of Kindness.

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Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets

Photo by Steve Snodgrass