While the glory days of the New German Cinema of the 1970s are long gone, Christian Petzold remains the one contemporary German director who has made an impact on the film-going public and become an ...

Disney may have made waves with last year's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, but the entertainment juggernaut isn't the only one obsessed with lovestruck creatures of the sea. Before Halle ...

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In European folklore, an undine is a female water spirit—sometimes called a selkie or naiad—that has the unfortunate habit of taking human form and falling in love with mortals. According to legend, ...

With a live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid on the horizon, and the sizeable splash created by DC’s Aquaman, it would appear that water nymphs have resurfaced in mainstream cinema. Undine, ...

A woman on the rebound gets into deep water in Transit director Christian Petzold’s playful reworking of an age-old myth Writer-director Christian Petzold (Transit) riffs on the German myth of the ...