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‘Cicadas’ Review: Nina Hoss’ Second Go-Round With ‘The Audition’ Director Doesn’t Live Up to the Buzz
Top German actresses Hoss and Saskia Rosendahl can’t save a muddled drama that’s too enigmatic for its own good.
In “ Cicadas,” top German actress Nina Hoss(who also serves as executive producer) reunites with filmmaker Ina Weisse, the director of her 2019 drama “The Audition,” in which she played a tightly wound woman whose life is unraveling. That same logline could also describe Weisse’s latest, where Hoss embodies 48-year-old Isabell, a high-end Berlin realtor who is trying to care for her aging parents at the same time that her childless marriage to a French engineer is falling apart. After losing her job washing dishes in an industrial kitchen, she takes on other menial work at the local bowling alley where she has to fend off the attentions of the oddball manager Uwe (Thorsten Merten).
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