In Next Door, a famous actor living in the penthouse of a renovated Altbau in Berlin––complete with his own private elevator––has his life flipped upon confronting a seemingly unassuming neighbor at his local bar. The director is Daniel Brühl, probably the most recognizable German actor to emerge since the country’s reunification and even in villainous roles a generally endearing onscreen presence. Next Door is his first feature (Brühl gets credit as director and star) and swings for the fences in its attempts to address the idiosyncratic generational, geographical class divides of his adoptive city. It doesn’t quite come off.
Brühl was born in Barcelona (his mother is Catalan) and grew up in Cologne, the furthest West of Germany’s major cities. His breakout role came in Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye Lenin!, a 2003 film by a West German director with romanticized notions of the East. The...
Brühl was born in Barcelona (his mother is Catalan) and grew up in Cologne, the furthest West of Germany’s major cities. His breakout role came in Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye Lenin!, a 2003 film by a West German director with romanticized notions of the East. The...
- 3/8/2021
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
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