Review: Few of this summer's movies burn as fiercely as Christian Petzold's 'Afire'
Leon (Thomas Schubert), the exasperated — and exasperating — young writer at the heart of the superb German drama "Afire," has a mesmerizingly punchable scowl. It's a scowl that rarely leaves your memory, since it so rarely leaves his features: a full-lipped mouth that hangs contemptuously half-open; eyes that glare lazily ahead, as though so worn down by irritation they couldn't even be bothered to roll properly.
Trying to revise his (wretchedly bad) novel over a few days' countryside retreat, Leon is beset by one unreasonable demand after another: How dare his friend Felix (Langston Uibel) invite him to go for a swim, or
