The quaint and rustic settlement of Sangerhausen, in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt, might have been an incidental choice of setting, but much of Julian Radlmaier’s quietly revelatory Phantoms of July brims with the contours of serendipity. The filmmaker’s self-reflexive and deadpan tendencies have been realized to charming effect in his satires, critiquing by way of high-brow ideological discourse and gentle humor the history and political economy of neoliberal capitalism. An acolyte and assistant director of Werner Schroeter, Radlmaier draws little of his...
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