3 (Drei)

Tom Twyker, the director of “Run, Lola, Run” and “The International,” returns to Germany – “3” is his first German-language film in nearly a decade – for a sexy romantic drama that nods to classic Hollywood’s screwball comedies. Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early 40s, live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they’ve become restless despite being truly and deeply in love. Unbeknownst to one another, they both become acquainted with Adam, a younger man, and fall in love with him. Clearly not your typical 1930s romp, this reinvention of those classic films is a playful update: an intellectual study of a modern couple looking for redefinition in a world of absolutes. The New York Times calls “3” a “sophisticated comedy of adultery and sexual experimentation” and says that “the collective sensibility on display is determinedly forward looking; you might even say avant-garde.”