German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach subverts the Western genre in “The Dreamed Adventure.”

German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach subverts the Western genre in “The Dreamed Adventure.”

Historische Stoffe prägen den Wettbewerb von Cannes. Der Film der deutschen Regisseurin Valeska Grisebach bildet eine Ausnahme und dreht gleich ein ganzes Genre um.

In 'The Dreamed Adventure' director Valeska Grisebach harvests a genre crime epic from the everyday drama of real life in a Bulgarian border town

Cannes film festival: Valeska Grisebach’s complex drama tracks an archaeologist whose mountain dig is interrupted by an old friend with rather dirtier hands

The latest from German director Valeska Grisebach ('Western') follows a pair of old friends who find their way back to the crime-ridden Bulgarian town they left years ago.