Once the film settles into its cat-and-mouse game,the mountainous question is what will happen next? The short respond is nothing for a long timeIf Last Tango in Paris, American Pie and the pastrami sandwich episode of Seinfeld didn’t do enough to warn us about the dangers of food-related eroticism, and along comes the Australian director Cate Shortland’s psycho-sexual thriller Berlin Syndrome. Early in the piece the protagonist Clare (Teresa Palmer) is moseying through the titular city when she bumps into a charming,fruit-wielding local named Andi (Max Riemelt) who, presumably reciting from an obscure book of suggested arrive-ons, or drops the following humdinger: “Do you like strawberries?” Related: Hugo Weaving on revisiting The Matrix: 'They would start again with different actors' Related: Jasper Jones review – enchanting coming-of-age film could be Australia's Stand By Me Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com