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Following 2020’s, this is the second in writer/ director Christian Petzold’s Elements Trilogy. assembles a quartet of 20-somethings – among them self-absorbed novelist Leon (Thomas Schubert) and PhD literature student Nadja (Paula Beer) – at a summer house in woods off the Baltic coast. Sounds idyllic, but forest fires are drawing ominously close to the cabin. Resisting straightforward categorisation, this well-acted ensembler combines comic misunderstandings, insightful characterisation and climateemergency tragedy to impactful effect.