March 28, 2009
Not much to say other than its a almost perfect film about forbidden love. Austere and underplayed. Simply Sublime.
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
A romance which charts an unlikely affair between a German cleaning woman and an Arab man half her age.
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Flixster Reviews (299)
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August 16, 2008Great film. Wonderful colors and a touching but unconventional love story...
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November 24, 2007This is one of the films I'm studying for my post-war German film class. Though I had heard this was a brilliant film I didn't know quite what to expect - suffice to say I was very pleased. This is a beautiful film which, at the surface, is a wonderful love story between two unli...( read more)
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July 13, 2007Beautiful colour, and uncommon love story. Fassbinder is really amazing. The whole scene when the lady enters the bar is brilliant. This movie will make you want to see more of Barbara Valentin, the bartender, she's really amazing and beautiful in it.
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June 20, 2009Sad tale of racism, and how society still destroys the lives of those who love it disapproves of.
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March 9, 2009This story touched me deep down inside. The main couple is struggling with their own relation due to their difference of age and also because Ali is an Arab. Fassbinder dressed a portrait of Germany after what happened to the Olympics of Munich and makes a documentary-like fictio...( read more)
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November 18, 2008So you see "All That Heaven Allows" and you see "Far From Heaven" and you read the literature and you get an expecatiton. This wasn't what I expected. No music, hardly and dialogue and what was was plain and monotone, lame sets, really lame lighting, bad dubing and a really lame ...( read more)
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September 8, 2008The only thing missing here is a break dance contest between Fassbinder and El Hedi Ben Salem
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January 22, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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