I love German film. In a way that French, Italian or Latin American/Spanish films can never replicate, German films resonate with me. (By German films, I mean those that get distribution in the US, and I still need to watch them with English subtitles.)
Perhaps it is because they are so close to being Hollywood films; they have bg budgets, great cinematography, good actors, and straightforward plotlines. And yet they are clearly not Hollywood. The actors aren't plastic and tan, the endings aren't always happy.
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), which won the 2007 Best Foreign Film Oscar, was an amazing movie, which I truly loved watching.
At some later point I may add intelligent and insightful remarks about this film, but for now all I can put into print is the warm glowing feeling accompanied by a smile that the film left me with.
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