Yella

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Admirers of Christian Petzold's 2000 drama The State I Am In, about a family of 1970s terrorists on the run in modern-day Germany, will be aware of the director's tendency to punctuate long, languid stretches with short, shocking bursts of action. Yella takes the same formula and applies it to an affecting and truly hallucinatory story that recalls the dreamier work of David Lynch, with Nina Hoss as the title character, a woman we meet in her home town outside Berlin. Yella is about to take a new job in Hanover, but on the way to the train station she is involved in a violent car crash with her crazed ex-husband (Hinnerk Schönemann). Undaunted, she continues her journey and eventually meets a charming but crooked venture capitalist (Devid Striesow). The twist may baffle some and disappoint others, but Petzold's film is an elegant riddle that's perhaps more memorable for mood and imagery than plot.