Black Forest fairy tale strains credulity
plays Gretchen , a surly teen whose musical ambitions are overturned when her parents – well, father and stepmother , more precisely and importantly – pick up sticks from the States and decamp to remote rural Bavaria to design a resort for Mr. König . Gretchen is the stereotypical resentful teen, mourning for her dead mother and resentful of everyone, including her younger stepsister , who happens to be mute.
If that’s not enough, there are disappearances, a wild-eyed cop, and an ululating woman in the woods, all of which is tied together with an oddly predictable and unimpressive bow. Shafer scowls and blunders through what’s supposed to be a dark learning experience, but Gretchen’s underwritten arc never gives any heft to the changes she’s supposed to go through.
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