A young woman with a possessive husband in an eastern German backwater wants out, but he won't allow it. This culminates in him unilaterally deciding on their suicide. Yella, however, gets away and finds a new life in Hanover with a private equity company, where her new boss takes a shine to her, as much as for her calculating ruthlessness in their shared predatory moves on ailing companies as for her other attributes. But it becomes evident that her attempt to distance herself from the past has failed...
Petzold's film teems under a thin skin with the supernatural, and there is an effective understated eeriness to the overall tone. But the central characters remain too glacially inexpressive and unsympathetic to ever really engage interest. Also, it's far too easy to deduce early on which Hollywood chiller the plot is clearly drawn from, and it doesn't add anything to the original despite the attempts to create a new focus with the corporate nastiness.
5/10
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