A good film, but nothing special, I expected much more having already seen Faith Akin's newest film "Auf Der Anderen Seite" which is excellent!
Sometimes the movie looks and feels like a diluted Kusturica movie, it has at times also a feel that it was artificially constructed to please and that takes away from what could have been a much better film. The acting is generally very good, the story is interesting and the characterization also, but there is something missing, something that would bind it all together into a coherent whole. Like this, the film is merely a collection of good (and not so good) scenes that do not always seem to be connected to each other and do not always make very much sense, especially in the second half of the movie. Again, not bad, but certainly nothing to write home about.
Sometimes the movie looks and feels like a diluted Kusturica movie, it has at times also a feel that it was artificially constructed to please and that takes away from what could have been a much better film. The acting is generally very good, the story is interesting and the characterization also, but there is something missing, something that would bind it all together into a coherent whole. Like this, the film is merely a collection of good (and not so good) scenes that do not always seem to be connected to each other and do not always make very much sense, especially in the second half of the movie. Again, not bad, but certainly nothing to write home about.