Why you're watching the wrong Christian Petzold films 

Plumbing the murky and anodyne depths of German modernity, Christian Petzold - leading light of the Berlin School; protege of artist-filmmaker Harun Farocki - has a bafflingly uneven reputation.
The highs are thrilling and poised; the lows, schlocky and off-note. Why so inconsistent?
To separate the sauer from the succulent, the boys - joined by George MacBeth - set out on a long-distance road trip through the autobahns and service stations that have provided such weirdly compelling settings for his filmmaking - a journey that makes pit-stops at the great (Afire, Gespenster), the so-so (Jerichow, Cuba Libre), and the wurst (Barbara, Phoenix, Transit, Undine).
With a career bookended by moments of brilliance we celebrate a true return to form.
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