A young man takes his mentally handicapped brother to Hamburg to search for their father in the comedy-drama My Brother Simple (Simpel). Directed with mainstream efficiency but not a lot of originality by Munich-born Markus Goller, whose Friendship! (2010) and Frau Ella (2013) were big hits locally, this German adaptation of French scribe Marie-Aude Murail’s novel casts Frederick Lau, the protagonist from one-take art house hit Victoria, as the lead and The Reader breakout David Kross as his titular sibling. The duo’s touching, fully inhabited performances elevate the otherwise rather conventional material, though its familiarity might actually be...
- 6/19/2017
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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