As young filmmaker Anna leaves Germany, where she has just shown her latest work, she embarks on a series of train rides, and several extended conversations with friends and strangers, as she makes her return to Paris. Director Akerman, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, has been preoccupied throughout her long career with the subjects of migration and homelessness. Made barely thirty years after the end of World War II, Les rendez-vous d’Anna plays at times like a horror film, resurrecting the ghosts of Europe’s traumatic history. – Darren Hughes