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Dreileben Trilogy: Beats Being Dead

Dreileben Trilogy: Beats Being Dead

(Christian Petzold, Germany, 2011, HD, 88 min)

A convicted sex offender has escaped from a hospital near a small German town surrounded by forest. If you're not intrigued yet, imagine hearing this story from three storytellers in three different parts! Beats Being Dead covers the first segment in this thrilling trilogy, an experiment dreamed up by three of the Berlin school's most acclaimed directors. Though they wished to use The Dreileben Trilogy to investigate different styles of filmmaking in Germany today, the trio's adventures in split narration have produced a gripping epic. Christian Petzold's contribution, Beats Being Dead, places the fugitive downstage from a romance between a hospital internwho is partially to blame for the criminal's escape and a Bosnian immigrant girl. Is the threat of the criminal really the greatest danger amidst the turbulence of their relationship?

"Petzold's piece is a teen dream of desire and deception cast under a Hitchcockian spell." -Kevin B. Lee, Fandor

"Petzold's BEATS BEING DEAD is as taut as it is volatile, a fever-dream compound of romantic tragedy and slasher noir." -Dennis Lim, Cinema Scope