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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:39
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Chilly and haunting, Yella's atmosphere gets under the skin.
Theatrical Release:2008
Synopsis: Narrowly escaping her volatile ex-husband, Yella (Nina Hoss) flees her small hometown in former East Germany for a new life in the West. She finds a promising job with Philipp (Devid Striesow), a... [More]
Starring: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Burghart Klaussner
Director: Christian Petzold
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Too obscure and oblique in its aims to completely enthral, Yella manages to get under the skin thanks to Hoss' bewitching performance as the troubled number cruncher and a final reveal that complicates everything that's gone before.
Filmmaker Christian Petzold meets his goal of providing an alienating portrait of the business world.
Yella clamps down on the viewer with a psychological hold that doesn't immediately reveal itself.
A rich, inventive and atmospheric thriller that is somehow able to reveal the final twist while retaining its mysterious allure.
Strikes a perfect balance between corporate intrigue and metaphysical mystery; his 2007 drama is filled with suspense but ends in delicious ambiguity.
Yella is a reserved young woman with unrevealed depths of intelligence, larceny and passion. Their gradual revelation makes this more than an ordinary thriller, in great part because of the performance of Nina Hoss in the title role.
Top CriticThe German offering Yella begins with an utterly gripping first 15 minutes, follows with a passable drama and ends with a big disappointment.
The adept performances and sharp direction of this thriller allow the viewer to see the writer-director's point: that life in communist East Germany may have been preferable for some to the more prosperous existence in the West.
Towards the end the symbolism gets heavy-handed, but by then the film has already cast its coldly mesmerising spell.
Yella is a strange beast: a twisty, slightly surreal mystery wrapped around the tedious art of the business deal.
The consequences of Reunification are explored in this effective metaphysical thriller.
Yella comes off as too intellectual an exercise to be thoughtful or serious entertainment.
This is, in places, a deeply disturbing film... yet the touching scenes, when they come, have a surprisingly emotional depth.
The film feels far too schematic and, even allowing for its unrelentingly mercenary premise, far too cold to inspire much viewer identification.
Its scenes involving the perilous business negotiations offer more genuine intellectual excitement than any CGI-stuffed chase.
The twist ending that softens the blow of this otherwise unique and atmospheric work is not for me to ruin, but it should be said that it shows a chink in the filmmaker's armor
A neat metaphysical thriller.
Exquisitely frigid, menacing, disquieting, with a storyline that keeps you off-balance, marred only by a slightly hackneyed dénouement.
In spite of some mysterious circumstances, Yella is directed perfunctorily and entirely without suspense or any sense of urgency.
This disquieting parable about trust and risk wrong-foots us at every turn.
May 03, 2009:
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