Asong comes to mind when pondering the moment that Sandra Hüller seems to be having. It’s I’m in Love with a German Film Star, the dreamy only hit by early 80s English band The Passions that has become a cult classic. Quite a bit of the cinema world is now in love with the German film star Hüller after this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
She is the lead in the French psychological thriller Anatomy of a Fall, which won the Palme d’Or, and UK-US-Polish Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, which won the event’s second-most prestigious trophy, the Grand Prix.
She has been a familiar face in European cinema for nearly 20 years for her roles in films such as Requiem and Toni Erdmann.
She has also been a prominent figure in German theatre in that time, too, and her career extended to music with a debut album in 2020. This year, the 45-year-old has gone international. In the week the Listener speaks to Hüller, she’s looking very glamorous on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter beneath the headline “Actress of the Year?” The publication is already talking up her 2024 Oscar chances.
She has become so for good reason and while playing two challenging characters: a murder accused whose guilt or innocence
