Was am Ende zählt (2007) Reviews

• Young girl gets stranded - bleak but moving.

  meta4-12008-11-11

  Stepping off the buss to catch a train, getting your luggage stolen and standing stranded in a city unknown to you. What would you do ? This is a film of growing up, finding identities, finding out about who you are. not to mention your own sexual preferences. This film portrays one particular year in the leads life, that is ageless, really. I'm 64 and recognized it, although its views of life is rather bleak. I found the film to be moving, disturbing and reassuring. That's not bad for one movie. Germans have a way of making stark naked films lately that gives a picture of how society looks from below, and it is not all that glorious. Germans know how this is done. No sweet flavors of pink as US movies. Just bare basic. This is one of them. Still, the film is tender, takes good care of their characters, well helped by great acting in the lead parts. The lesbian twitch was my reason to see it. As a European I recommend this to all. Americans ? - maybe not so much. There is no candy-floss here at all.

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• Heart rending and touchingly beautiful!

  coolshiv-481-4602722012-09-20

  There are some parts in this movie that will lead us to deep introspection...many a times, I asked myself, what if I had been in her place? What would I have chosen? Lead actors have done a great job in bringing their characters alive on screen. We derive succor in lives by creating stronger identities..when those identities are threatened and the future we envisage for ourselves becomes a question mark, we are led to make choices that can be life altering. I'd not exaggerate if I say that this movie does complete justice to portraying such choices on screen. As opposed to the mainly Bollywood fare I have been exposed to, European cinema leaves a lot unsaid and lets the viewer draw his/her own conclusions...this one is no different.

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