"Four Minutes"
2006
Directed by Chris Kraus

In Four Minutes, or Vier Minuten, Monica Bleibtreu has been desensitized by decades of teaching piano to the inmates of a women's prison. Her creative juices start flowing again when Hannah Herzsprung arrives at her bench. Though incarcerated for murder, this young, beautiful, and prodigious inmate has the requisite skills and the stern mentor needed to get her out of prison, if temporarily, to play in competition. However, the girl's violent streak repeatedly sabotages this goal. The Night Porter-esque sexual overtones aren't helping much, either. "This is a blood on the keys piano psychodrama" (LA Weekly). Winner of two Lola Awards, including Best Picture. German with English subtitles.  112 minutes.