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Afire
Directed by Christian Petzold
Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms. From TMDB
86 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Aug 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How this works
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Afire is a 2023 drama romance comedy film, directed by Christian Petzold, starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer and Langston Uibel.
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60 of 86 · most liked firstChipped away at my pile of unwatched (mostly Criterion) discs over the weekend: • Paper Moon - Classic bratty-kid ad hoc family road movie. Gorgeous. Shame about the O'Neil's tho • Afire - Wow, this one cut deep. A new favorite. • Crossing Delancey - Cute, very 80s NY Jewish romcom. Shrug.
positive · AI labelView post →To the many friends who have sent me the news of Huppert in an Elizabeth Báthory retelling with the hot jerk from Afire, you all get it variety.com/2025/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →boxd.it/e6TtCp I have seen a few Petzold films now - Undine, Afire, Phoenix, Barbara, Yella, Transit and Jerichow - and they never disappoint me. An exceptional director of rare economy and edge. #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Watched Afire. I often find it hard to settle on a film to watch, but I've noticed that German films suit me. This one about an insecure young writer trying to write his follow-up in a remote cottage. Really good, unexpected - a thumbs up from me. homecinema.curzon.com/film/afire/
positive · AI labelView post →#StrictlyInstrumental Day 16 Tarwater - Be late From "Dwellers on the threshold" (Germany, 2022, Kitti-Yo) A minimalist composition, blending subtle electronic textures and pulsing rhythms to create a hypnotic and introspective mood, that I discovered from the movie "Afire". tinyurl.com/yckb67wt
neutral · AI labelView post →truly entering my old man era of movie watching when i'm not seeing oppenheimer for like three weeks and thinking "i'll get around to barbie eventually" (was thinking of seeing petzold's Afire next week but the theater showing it still sucks)
neutral · AI labelView post →The first positive outcome of my work on Film Fest Knox is getting to know Regal's arthouse programmer, which is why we're getting a once-a-day screening of AFIRE next week. :)
neutral · AI labelView post →A fairly unremarkable week. Thought Corpus Christi was extremely overrated, actually found it pretty annoying by the end. Just knocked Afire off the list (rated it 3 stars), a curious film. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd
neutral · AI labelView post →Came out to the Salt Lake Film Society for a little Sunday afternoon double feature of Christian Petzold’s latest, AFIRE, and the new restoration of Peter Bogdanovich’s THE LAST PICTURE SHOW! Filmsky 📽️ 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 52 Watch a movie watched by another challenger in 2025. This week I watched: Port of Shadows (1938) White Material (2009) Afire (2023) Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
neutral · AI labelView post →Round Two was AFIRE at Film Linc. Fantastic movie. And now, a burrito break! 🌯
positive · AI labelView post →Afire (Petzold; 2023); friendly meal that goes awry might be the scene of the year. A great film about solipsism. 🎥
positive · AI labelView post →Afire (2023) Christian Petzold (director) The second of Petzold's element series, after his water nymph film Undine (2020). Bought it straight away because I like everything of his that I've been able to find. 📽 #CriterionCollection #JanusContemporaries
neutral · AI labelView post →Afire is great. My one note is Leon should've been named Joe. And the movie should've been named Mopey Joe. But seriously, not seen Petzold play with comedy like this before. The spirit of Rohmer lives: a tale of a writer living a story but being too distracted to see it.
positive · AI labelView post →AFIRE: Quite possibly the most relatable film about a writer going on vacation one ever seen. As per usual with Petzold, the power is derived from the most minute gestures. Schubert excels with a difficult part, Beer characteristically radiant. “In my mind. In my mind.”
positive · AI labelView post →watched Petzold’s AFIRE (ROTER HIMMEL in german, a much better title). for the first hour, it feels like Petzold trying his hand at a Maren Ade film. Curious, fun, good even. the last act though delivers with a vengeance. takes the film to a whole another level.
positive · AI labelView post →Likers of Petzold's Afire will like Sarajevo Film Festival winner Everytime. I thought it was too much strewn with metaphor, I wish Wollner had stuck with one and carried it through. Pretty pictures tho.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched Afire ("Roter Himmel," 2023), a German #drama about a self-absorbed writer struggling with both his manuscript and the people around him. It's an interesting film, and definitely one that some of you #writers out there will appreciate... 🖋️ #Filmsky #Moviesky #Writesky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Less complicated yet more complex than Afire, Christian Petzold's new film, Miroirs n° 3 could well be this autumn's cinematic highlight www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...
neutral · AI labelView post →Been rewatching some of Christian Petzold's movies recently. During this time, I've come to the conclusion that Afire might be the best movie about millennial malaise and dread in the 2020s.
positive · AI labelView post →UC at the Esquire European Film series! Film & post film discussion with a UC faculty member Today: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (2023)- France Sunday: AFIRE/ ROTER HIMMEL (2023)- Germany Sunday 2/23: ALCARRÀS (2022)- Spain/Italy #Cincinnati youtu.be/nWAJXTcEEOU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking about one of my favourite films, Christian Petzold's Afire, after rewatching last night. Tom Petty's Walls aptly describes the heart of the film, the walls we put up to protect ourselves. If we're lucky, someone will see through the cracks in those walls, and maybe even take them down.
positive · AI labelView post →Favourite movie of the 2020's? Mine: Christian Petzold's Afire.
positive · AI labelView post →Afire being a really great movie is saving my night.
positive · AI labelView post →favorite first time film watches for August: -Afire (Petzold, 2023) -Style Wars (Silver, 1983) -Limite (Peixoto, 1931) -Talk to Me (Philippou x2, 2023) -Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton, Reisner, 1928)
neutral · AI labelView post →The best new movie this week is "Afire," a sly comedy-drama from Christian Petzold ("Transit," "Undine") starring his go-to leading lady, Paula Beer — who twists the "manic pixie dream girl" conventions into something sensible and amazing. (Broadway.) 2/4
neutral · AI labelView post →christian petzold’s AFIRE (2023) is maybe the first film to bravely ask, “what if there was a writer guy who was a loser?” fortunately for all of us in the audience, the answer is that he’d have a hot gf. 7/10
neutral · AI labelView post →Last week, I spoke with Christian Petzold at length about his German summer film AFIRE, work as identity, the intellectual desire to recover innocence through reflection, and more. https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/to-return-to-innocence-from-the-other-side-christian-petzold-on-afire
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the PG-13 rated edit of my interview with Christian Petzold about his new film AFIRE 🔥 https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/christian-petzold-interview-afire/
neutral · AI labelView post →I was personally attacked by Afire, a blackly funny and surprisingly sensual movie about a writer who will not have fun one time in his life. My review: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/christian-petzold/afire-review
positive · AI labelView post →I can't quite think of a novel that's like a Petzold film - he's really in a league of his own! But, if you haven't seen Afire yet, that has a novelist as the main character!
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Review: German drama – Afire – wp.me/p2mMDp-9bL #Films #Filmsky #Moviesky #Movies 🎬📽️ #review #cinema
neutral · AI labelView post →Film-wise: at 7pm, Sister Act on E4. At 9pm, Braveheart on Film4, Bourne Ultimatum on Sky Showcase or The Jack Bull on Sky Mix. At 9.30, Cocaine Bear on C4. At 11pm, Afire on BBC4. At 11.45pm, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly on Sky Arts. At 12.30am, Censor on Film4. At 1am, Oldboy on Sky SciFi #telly
neutral · AI labelView post →I revisited AFIRE the other day on the Criterion Channel. What a beautiful and devastating film. It also belong to the genre I love called Films in Which Two People Becomes Friends but then Have a Falling Out but then Randomly Meet Up and Smile at Each Other and then the Movie Ends.
positive · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Comedy Movies Released on July 14! What's your fave? 1. Afire 2. Final Cut 3. Popeye the Sailor 4. The Man in the Raincoat Check out all 53 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Comedy
neutral · AI labelView post →Kraken are playing like shit, so starting my second film of the night, from my list of a film from every year 2024-1930 rewatches, #NowWatching Afire, 2023, Christian Petzold, Germany #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s your favorite movie from 2023? Me: Christian Petzold's Afire - An incredible film about how we perceive ourselves, the beauty of finding someone who sees past your walls, and a great modern update to the manic pixie dream girl.
positive · AI labelView post →Mine is terrible, but I'll ask my neighbour! She was just over to watch Petzold's new film "Afire" on my criterion subscription. Subtitles on for my benefit, sadly.
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a new Christian Petzold film "Afire" but I haven't seen it yet. I love his other movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Christian Petzold film Afire is now streaming on Criterion Channel. In my Letterboxd review, I get more personal than my typical writing because I discuss the protagonist's weight, something the film keeps as subtext and many critics did not discuss.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think you would like the comedy of the Swedish film Sick of Myself some other recent good ones: Dardennes brothers' Tori and Lokita Petzold's Afire Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island Athena by Costas-Gavras's son
neutral · AI labelView post →I've got a bit confused by some cinemas listing it as ROTER HIMMEL and others calling it AFIRE. Only just twigged they're the same film...
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven't seen a Petzold film in theaters since PHOENIX (which is still an ending I can't shake), so I was elated to catch his latest, AFIRE, at the local theater in Victoria. Another remarkable film from one of the most dependable directors working today.
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatched Petzold's PHOENIX last night. Between that, AFIRE, UNDINE, and TRANSIT, dude really knows how to end a movie. Love his work with Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer, but it might be time to put the two of them in a film with Nina Hoss as well. Avengers-style team up of Petzold's greats.
neutral · AI labelView post →screenshot from Afire by Christian Petzold. Still the best film of the year for me.
positive · AI labelView post →But an action 🎥 needs action. Afire is the kind of film festival movie I don't get to see much any more, where a dickish male writer mopes about, you're trying to figure out why you shouldn't be rooting for him and there's lots of quiet moments, simple dialogue and you have to unpack it after.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now rewatching a film that I'm glad I caught at Sundance and am looking forward to writing more about next week. After Afire, really liking the trend of movies I'm on about assholes whose stories pull no punches on excavating all their flaws in what is only lightly about their possible redemption 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Afire (2023) Directed by Christian Petzold https://onesheet.org/movie/afire-2023/
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on July 14! What's your fave? 1. War for the Planet of the Apes 2. Easy Rider 3. Afire 4. The Pride of the Yankees Check out all 127 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Drama
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Comedy Movies Released on July 14! What's your fave? 1. La Leyenda de los Chaneques 2. To Be Twenty 3. Afire 4. Final Cut Check out all 127 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Comedy
neutral · AI labelView post →I heard it first time, while watching a film, on BBC iPlayer, called Afire. Which had more than one, ‘well, I wasn’t expecting that.’
positive · AI labelView post →Even after I named AFIRE the #1 film of 2023😔
positive · AI labelView post →“Miroirs No. 3” might actually even be better than “Undine” or “Afire.” Petzold’s on a hot streak unmatched in world cinema right now. Phenomenal to have this at the Gasparilla Film Festival in Tampa today.
neutral · AI labelView post →#14 Mirrors No. 3 After Afire, one of the most cutting films of the decade, Petzold finishes his Germanic mythology trilogy with a pretty effective film that is only superficially gentler. Great pairing with The Shrouds.
neutral · AI labelView post →I also forgot to mention a TARWATER song plays a significant part in Christian Petzold’s 2023 film AFIRE — and I forgot how much this german synth group’s “Spider Smile” record soundtracked my 2007. youtu.be/JCeP6dVi6TM?...
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Afire (HD/HDX) (SD) is available today on (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Paula Beer, Enno Trebs, Thomas Schubert, Matthias Brandt, Langston Uibel Genre: (Foreign) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/afire
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 50 non-English language films from world cinema that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 film per day for 50 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs & imdB link: Day 45. Afire 2023 Germany #movies #afiremovie m.imdb.com/title/tt2644...
neutral · AI labelView post →AFIRE Podcast 2025.06: Jim Costello / Trump admin on CRE AFIRE - January 17, 2025 “What’s the biggest change that will surprise us in 2025—and how should the investment community adjust to those changes?” https://www.afire.org/podcast/202506cast/ #CRE #RealEstate #AFIRE #MSCI @realestate
neutral · AI labelView post →Afire is not the film I thought it was based on the trailer. It is a lot darker. Pretty good, despite that, and not afraid to have an unlikeable central character. Publishing folk may well be astounded by the editing scene. I know I was. The ending felt a bit too rushed, but otherwise I liked it.
positive · AI labelView post →Movies I watched in 2024 (not too many this year): Torn Curtain Afire Everything Everywhere All at Once The Pigeon Tunnel Symphony for a Massacre* The Great Game Diplomacy Three Men to Kill The Blair Witch Project A Nos Amours J. Edgar A Short Film About Killing* No End A Short Film About Love 1/3
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