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Anne McElvoy on Theatre

IT’S UNUSUAL FOR ACTORS TO VAULT Europe’s many language barriers — and end up with a lead in an Oscarwinning film. But Sandra Hüller is a breakout German talent, an actress from the post-Wall era who exudes a mix of modernity in her uncluttered style and androgynous cool. British audiences will most likely have seen her as the emotionally stunted wife of a concentration camp commandant in Jonathan Glazer’s chilling dissection of deathly fanaticism, The Zone of Interest or as the ambiguous suspect in the spine-tingling French legal drama, Anatomy of a Fall. In her home country, however, Hüller is as well known for her stage acting as for award-winning cinema. HÜLLER’S HAMLET IS GAUCHE, CYNICAL AND LOST IN A WORLD OF DECEIT FROM THE OPENING OF THE PLAY And…

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