
This drama focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a nightclub. The three siblings just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.... (Full plot summary below)
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This drama focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a nightclub. The three siblings just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.
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| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe film's outrageousness would be more palatable if leavened with more wit, or if the characterizations possessed more nuances. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenEffectively mixes humor with melodrama to deliver an absorbing look at 3 brothers with enormous emotional problems. |
| NewsdayGene SeymourThere's fierce energy and -- thanks to the performances -- affecting emotion in the movie that almost makes you forget that Rainer Werner Fassbinder told a similar story much better 28 years ago with In a Year with 13 Moons. |
| About.comJurgen FauthNeither Agnes nor his brothers ever feel real enough to truly shock. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezJust as the characters are underthought, the storylines are incongruently pieced together. |
| User ReviewPrivate URAGHHHAHHHHHHH WATCH A POST-OP TRANNY DIE BY BLEEDING OUT OF HIS VAGINA. BEST MOVIE EVER. BEST MOVIE EVER. OMG, SO GERMAN. SO GOOD. SO MANY ISSUES. AND A MAN SHITS ON PAPER. SO AWESOME. THEN COOKES SAUSAGES! SO GOOD! |
| User ReviewSusan MGerman movie about an extremely dysfunctional family. Weird but I liked it. |
| User ReviewDani MThe performance of all the actors is very very good. But there were too many plot-lines left open at the end for my taste. You never find out the cause for Hans-Joergs sex-addiction and where his stories about his father abusing Agnes come from - or how much is true. This is the case with the biography of every character here - some aspects overtly exposed while others are kept totally hidden. |
| User ReviewLori BDespite all the criticism of this movie as the German "American Beauty" I think this film and its unique character perversions offer a more creative reflection on postmodern society's failings than its big budget and predictable U.S. analog. |
| User ReviewEug WThree generations of a dysfunctional German family implode. With sexy Moritz Bleibtreu as the nerdy, sexually frustrated librarian! |