In the Fade

Akin isn’t looking to provide viewers with any answers per se; he’s simply aware of these open wounds and feels it might just be in everyone’s interests for him to pick away.

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The ending is puzzling, when it wants to be devastating, and the political and personal sides of the story, rather than illuminating each other, fight to a stalemate. Ms. Kruger, however, who won the best actress award at Cannes in May, leaves a vivid, haunting impression.

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Diane Kruger’s beautifully modulated performance as a woman seeking justice following the neo-Nazi murder of her husband and son anchors this skilled though familiar drama.

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Acclaimed director Fatih Akin explores the aftereffects of xenophobic hate crime through Kruger’s gripping portrayal.

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Even Diane Kruger going after Nazis can't save the blunt courtroom drama In The Fade.

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Of course, these two films have different purposes than Akin’s other than sharing some thematic similarities, but seeing them in the same environment only accentuates “In The Fade” as a pretty good made-for-TV movie and a terribly average theatrical film.

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Alas, it also contains many of the same inherent flaws as most movies of this type, and not even the genuinely good and powerful aspects on display are quite able to overcome the more troublesome elements.

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Fatih Akin’s In the Fade comes to life when it dramatizes the distraction tactics necessary to excusing terrorism.

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Fatih Akin’s drama about a woman whose husband is killed in a terrorist bomb attack is an uncompelling and evasive treatment of a very contemporary subject.

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A German woman sets out to avenge the racially motivated murder of her husband and son in Hamburg.

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