Stylized with a recurring misty focus, the film's economically captured detail shots (gestures, expressions, caught moments) convey genuine sensitivity without the expected weepiness.
The Mistress(Das Fräulein)
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Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina · 2006
1h 21m
Director Andrea Štaka
Starring Mirjana Karanović, Andrea Zogg, Marija Škaričić, Pablo Aguilar
Genre Drama
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Ruža is living in Zurich decades after leaving her home country of Serbia. She leads a quiet and repetitive life as the owner of a restaurant by the railroad tracks. But everything changes as she forms a friendship with Ana, a strong-willed and enigmatic refugee from Bosnia.
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Fraulein almost entirely shuns backstory, coloring around the lives of its characters with ostentatious style (in this case, fuzzy-wuzzy visual vibes and music tailored to each character’s generation) and hoping audiences won’t mind filling in the blanks.
Staka’s interested in subtleties and looks at the different coping mechanisms of immigrants, from Ruza’s overly efficient life to Ana’s carefree existence.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
An intimate, elusive drama about the boundaries of friendship and nationality, Fräulein presents immigrant lives with significantly more empathy than detail. For some, though, the movie’s narrative shorthand will be enough.
San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego
Fraulein works by an accumulation of details.
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