Mirrors No. 3 (2025) review

Mostly unscathed by an automobile accident that claimed the life of her 'boyfriend' Jakob (Philip Froissant), pianist Laura (Paula Beer) decides to stay at the home of Betty (Barbara Auer), the woman who saved her, and get some much-needed rest ... and then learns about how Betty's been estranged from her husband Richard (Matthias Brandt) and son Max (Enno Trebs) and comes to realize the dark secret they share together.  German filmmaker Petzold has made a few good movies in the past, but this - which is named after a composition by Maurice Ravel - is so underwritten and ultra low-key it barely exists as a drama: Laura isn't really sad that Jakob passed away and the "despair" Betty and her relatives feel is common to many households that lose a family member at a young age.  It takes the brutish - albeit handy - Max to shove Laura to the ground to force Laura to go back to school (and set up the weird stalking scenes) and yet the most notable event in the entire movie is the dishwasher exploding.