The best years of the protagonist are not the best time for director Dominik Graf. Probably already knowing that the script with its standard format story was so-so, Graf chooses for a very inapt and out of control style, including the cinematography, that results in a very muddled film without tension; the film never gets off the ground and the story is hard to follow. In the end the viewer is left with quite some loose ends.
2 Reviews
Amazing
jandewitt19 July 2004
Warning: Spoilers
This most unusual story, which, in lesser hand, might have flopped all the way, is brought to live by the luminous Martina Gedeck, surely Germany's most accomplished modern actress.
The highly literate script tells the grim tale of a pampered woman, who not only looses her husband and son in an accident but nearly also her mind. Step by step she tries to rebuild her shattered life and finally finds new happiness in the arms of handsome Tim Bergmann (though I must admit that Mister Bergmann is almost too pretty for the part).
What on paper sounds like a Peg's Papers novel to catch between hair dryer and beauty parlor is made into an absorbing saga of love, despair, faith, strength and, above all, hope.
The highly literate script tells the grim tale of a pampered woman, who not only looses her husband and son in an accident but nearly also her mind. Step by step she tries to rebuild her shattered life and finally finds new happiness in the arms of handsome Tim Bergmann (though I must admit that Mister Bergmann is almost too pretty for the part).
What on paper sounds like a Peg's Papers novel to catch between hair dryer and beauty parlor is made into an absorbing saga of love, despair, faith, strength and, above all, hope.
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