Afire (2023)7.1 /10

Storyline:  Petzold returns with this multilayered, serio-comic portrait of a sulky writer struggling with his second novel at his friend’s summer cottage. Leon (Thomas Schubert) is stuck inside his head most of the time. So much so, he’s not really alive to what’s going on around him, except in as much as it effects him negatively. Luckily his pal Felix is the easy going sort. Leon is especially put out to find that they’re going to be sharing the cottage with a stranger, Nadja (Paula Beer), who turns out to be lovely, which is even more annoying…