A story about the difficulty and necessity of reckoning with yesterday to forge a worthier tomorrow, it’s a gorgeous, gripping drama whose resonance transcends its chosen post-WWII period.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s lates introduces itself in an emotional texture that its gracefully somber companion films hardly touched: an ironic and bitter humor.

To watch Paweł Pawlikowski’s eloquent drama "Fatherland" is to commune with an artist in full command of his medium.

Every moment hits. Pawlikowski and Handloegten’s script is tight, taut, and smart. The emotional beats are earned.