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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #46. Barbara Albert’s Die Mittagsfrau

Published on January 17, 2023

Die Mittagsfrau

For her next feature outing Barbara Albert lands on some heavy material in the adaptation based Julia Franck’s novel which reconstructs the complete mindf*ck of a situation where a mother is forced to leave her young son at a railway station in 1945. Production on Die Mittagsfrau (which translates to the midday woman) took place in May on what is a decade-spanning drama. Mala Emde and Max von der Groeben share the lead.

Gist: This follows the journey of a woman named Hélène who, in the aftermath of the Second World War, is ready to do anything to start a new life. Hélène, the central character and a woman with many faces, divides her life between two men, two worlds that are far from similar.

Release Date/Prediction: A Cannes Un Certain Regard long-shot?

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Annual Top Films Lists

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #46. Barbara Albert’s Die Mittagsfrau