The Meetings of Anna

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present. The Meetings of Anna featuring Aurore Clément and Helmut Griem is streaming with subscription on The Criterion Channel, and available for rent or purchase on Prime Video. It's a drama movie with a better than average IMDb audience rating of 7.3 (2,069 votes) and was well received by critics.