Salisbury Film Society Presents 'In The Fade'

SALISBURY, MD—The Salisbury Film Society presents the 2017 Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Film, In the Fade, on Sunday, October 7, at 2:30 p.m.in the Fulton Hall Film Center at Salisbury University.

Diane Kruger, who won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance, plays a German woman seeking justice following the death of her son and Kurdish husband after a bomb is placed outside his accounting office. Turkish-German director Fatih Akin uses the investigative thriller format to controversially interrogate, in his words, “the rise of neo-Nazis, and how they’ve – neo-Nazis and racists – now reached the center of [German] society.”

Kruger, who is in almost every shot, does not disappoint. Best known to audiences as Helen in Troy, the National Treasure series and Inglourious Basterds, “nothing will prepare you for what she brings to In The Fade,” said critic Ian Freer.  “She gives the film a real and raw potency, by turns bruised and vulnerable, then angry and resolute … (and) a final moment that will leave you reeling.  Then you’ll start talking. ”

Writer/director Akim “made a great film in 2007, The Edge of Heaven, and three years before that, a masterpiece: Head-On,” said critic Joyce Glasser, who praised the “superb craftsmanship of In the Fade.”

The film is in German with English subtitles.  All of this season’s movies are 2017 releases.

The SFS series is co-sponsored by the Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council (SWAC) and SU’s Charles R. and Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts.  Tickets are $9, $8 for SWAC members, and free for university and college students with ID. For more information call 410-543-ARTS (2787) or visit the SWAC website.