In Adam & Evelyn (Adam und Evelyn), a couple from East Germany see their 1989 summer holiday plans unexpectedly align with a wave of East Germans hoping to escape into the west across the Austro-Hungarian border. Based on the novel by Ingo Schulze, this feature adaptation from writer-director Andreas Goldstein and co-writer, cinematographer and editor Jakobine Motz initially plays things straight before finally underlining the absurdity of living in the twilight days of the German Democratic Republic. But the film’s first two acts are too emotionally uninvolving and detached to turn this into a feature with possible crossover appeal, leaving ...
In Adam & Evelyn (Adam und Evelyn), a couple from East Germany see their 1989 summer holiday plans unexpectedly align with a wave of East Germans hoping to escape into the west across the Austro-Hungarian border. Based on the novel by Ingo Schulze, this feature adaptation from writer-director Andreas Goldstein and co-writer, cinematographer and editor Jakobine Motz initially plays things straight before finally underlining the absurdity of living in the twilight days of the German Democratic Republic. But the film’s first two acts are too emotionally uninvolving and detached to turn this into a feature with possible crossover appeal, leaving ...
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