A smart wife cures her husband of his infatuation with a beautiful singer..
Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s German cinema and don't mind a story that moves at a very deliberate, polite pace, you'll probably get a kick out of Playing with Fire. It’s not for the action crowd, obviously. If you get restless watching people sit in parlors and talk about their feelings in s...
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s German cinema and don't mind a story that moves at a very deliberate, polite pace, you'll probably get a kick out of Playing with Fire. It’s not for the action crowd, obviously. If you get restless watching people sit in parlors and talk about their feelings in subtext, this is going to feel like watching paint dry. Personally, I found the wife’s strategy surprisingly modern in its execution. The whole premise feels like a stage play that..."
Josef Reithofer
Herbert B. Fredersdorf, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Roland Schacht
Germany
