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    'In The Fade': A Fine Central Performance, An Uncertain Ending

    Diane Kruger won Best Actress at Cannes for her performance as a woman struggling in the aftermath of tragedy.
    by Mark Jenkins Dec 28, 2017 2 minutes
    Rafael Santana and Diane Kruger in <em>In The Fade</em>.

    Poignant and complex if occasionally frustrating, Fatih Akin's is the story of a marriage. Not a conventional one, as the director announces with a prologue in which white-suited Nuri (Numan Acar) struts through a lineup of wedding-day well-wishers to meet his much-tattooed bride, Katja (Diane Kruger). Nuri's pals are fellow inmates, and the ceremony is performed in a prison classroom.

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