So, you're a hot straight German cop, your wife is pregnant, the two of you have just moved into a new house near your parents, and you really don't get along with your partner at the academy... until you have sex with him. Then, complications. Notable at last year's Berlinale, out today on dvd, Free Fall
[watch now] never got an indie release in the U.S. but it did play several festivals including New Fest, where the NYT called it "one of the strongest...an upsetting and believable study of the disruptive power of unleashed desire."
Big congrats to the women of Wolfe Releasing for not degaying the dvd cover.
Criminals, cops, hidden lives, and that "disruptive power of unleashed desire" also define the Austrian thriller Revanche
[watch now
for $2.99] which was an overlooked Oscar nominee in 2009. Too tidy, but I loved it.
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