In The Fade: (Faith Akin 2017): Germany/France

Reviewed by David Abernathy. Viewed at the Chinese
1 Theater in Hollywood at American Film Institute’s AFIFEST 2017.

 

Faith Akins In The Fade is an action packed drama.From the first scene the movie has your attention.A horrific tragedy sends the mother into a mission of revenge.Diane Kruger plays the role of a mother who had to deal with raising a child on her own ,while her husband was in jail. Shortly after the husbands release the family suffers a terrorist attack and the mother has to take things into her own hands.Thinking she might have gotten in over her head the mother has to make some final decisions.                                                                                               The movie was filmed in Greece.The cinematography was done by Rainer Klausman . His choice to hold the camera by hand while running was genius.Overall it was a great movie.


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