‘Fatherland’ Review: Thomas Mann and His Daughter Travel Across Germany in 1949 in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Meticulous Time Machine of a Drama
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The matter-of-fact seduction of Pawlikowski’s filmmaking lies in how he stages everything with a coolly objective authenticity. In “Fatherland,” he lends this historical moment a time-machine quality, so that we feel we’re right there, in Germany in 1949, seeing the sands of history shift. Pawlikowski is ruminating on moral choice, and he’s also ruminating on […]