First Kill was released more than 10 years after the original. The actress is now in her mid-20s and looks nothing like a child but they somehow made it work. It can't cope up with its predecessor though. Isabelle Fuhrman and Julia Stiles both delivered impressive performances
It's all very pretty and moving, but it seems Petzold has the same tendency as his fellow European filmmakers born in postwar Europe of subsuming the complexity of historicity under preposterous melodrama and sentimentality...Nina Hoss is such a good actress though.