With an incisive script that trifles with emotional and thematic transparency, Krippendorff authentically captures what it is like to grapple with one’s burgeoning maturity and identity.
Cocoon(Kokon)
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Germany · 2020
1h 39m
Director Leonie Krippendorff
Starring Lena Urzendowsky, Lena Klenke, Jella Haase, Elina Vildanova
Genre Drama, Romance
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In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend, Aylin. This all changes, however, when she meets Romy, and friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a new world and unexpected summer of love.
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Little White Lies by Ariel Klinghoffer
While heartbreak is imminent as it is a coming-of-age film, the absence of hopelessness brings a lightness to the film not begotten by hollowness, and you may even find yourself with a melancholy smile, as Nora’s metamorphosis is complete: she breaks out of her cocoon.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
The film conforms to the coming-of-age template in that romance is followed or superseded by friendship and maturing personal growth. Urzendowsky keeps it all together.
Krippendorff squeezes a lot of layers of the urban teen experience into Cocoon’s slim 93 or so minutes, and gives a lot of shades to her characters, who are never simple “types” the way most Hollywood films about high schoolers are.
The New York Times by Teo Bugbee
The softness lacks detail, the butterfly metaphors lack originality, but the movie is pleasant, a balmy introduction to adult feelings of desire and belonging.
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