The Elementary Particles
The Elementary Particles

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Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, this movie focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. His pitiful life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. I... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Elementary Particles:

Christian Ulmen
Moritz Bleibtreu
Martina Gedeck
Franka Potente
Nina Hoss
Corinna Harfouch

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Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, this movie focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. His pitiful life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again...

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RTÉ (Ireland) - 8/10 by Harry GuerinGrim, funny, moving and thought-provoking, Roehler's film will find some people who will rank it as one of their films of the year and others who will say that he has ruined Houellebecq's book.
Calgary Movies - 8/10 by Ryan CracknellA depressing thinker of a film that also offers a little nostalgia to boot.
european-films.net - 8/10 by Boyd van HoeijI want your (sanitized) sex -- and a happy ending.
ViewLondon - 6/10 by Matthew TurnerBeautifully shot and impressively acted, this is an evocative and frequently moving film, though it's often hard to engage with its unlikeable characters.
User Review - 10/10 by Nick OAn amazing Rollercoaster of a film, the characters are really interesting, tragic and funny. You really want to find out what happens to them. For some reason it reminds me of an adult Forest Gump, don't ask me why.
User Review - 10/10 by Alissa LDark, gives goosebumbs and shows every inch of the aliniated enviroment we're surrounded by. It's not a happy movie but makes you feel good
User Review - 10/10 by Stig HThis raw, disturbing, yet poignant and captivating film caught me by surprise and kept me hooked right through to the bitter-sweet end. Set fifty years in the future, but mostly told through vignettes of the past, one could easily be forgiven for failing to see that it is, in part, a work of science fiction. The Elementary Particles (also known as Atomised) is the film adaption of a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq. The storyline revolves around the bleak, day to day lives of two brothers: Bruno Klement, (an anguished, depressed sex addicted and dysfunctional teacher, played by Moritz Bleibtreu), and Michel Djerzinski , (a painfully shy, introverted scientist played by Christian Ulmen ). Both men's awkward inability to function like 'normal' human beings is palpably exposed as each struggles and stumbles his way through life; the aftermath, it appears, of a chaotic childhood with a mostly absent hippy Mother, Jane, played by Nina Hoss. Bruno is moved from one abusive boarding school to another, eventually finding himself in a loveless marriage while Michel is raised by his paternal grandmother, and determinedly eschews all physical female contact while immersing himself in academia - aptly as a molecular biologist desperate to 'remove love' from the reproduction process through his life's work. Bruno's frantic, uncontrolled need for sex and female company has him lunging into disturbing, unsatisfactory, loveless and often perverted sexual encounters but never finding the 'connection' he so desperately seeks. The boys are unaware of each other's existence until their teens when Jane casually introduces them and they find they are complete opposites in every way; except the most important one - their inability to form healthy, satisfying human relationships - and that's where this movie excels; sensitively and cleverly portraying unvarnished hopelessness, despair and loneliness. Both Bruno and Michel are clearly 'empty of love'; Bruno, crass, sad, isolated, sexually deviant and emotionally broken, Michel painfully shy and scared of human contact. The intelligent script, screenplay and skillful acting allow the viewer a seamless transition between the lives of the two men. Touching, embarrassing, forceful and unforgettable, many scenes depicting the pathos of their existence are simply unforgettable . Bruno's pursuit of sex and the awkward realism of his sordid encounters are both entrancing and repellant; Michel's self-imposed isolation, palpably painful. When the brothers eventually stumble onto the one thing they have been seeking or avoiding all their lives, cruel and random events do not lead to the inevitable ending one might expect. It is enough, it seems, to have finally experienced the one thing that has always eluded them. Although The Elementary Particles is by no means an uplifting movie, its ingenious realism and its utter refusal to portray life as anything other than random, cruel, joyous and challenging is what makes it such a great work of art.
User Review - 10/10 by Rubi IBrilliant. Amazing cast. Great acting. Interesting. Thrilling. Not a single second of a boring plot.
User Review - 10/10 by Christian SSehr gute Schauspieler, verstörende Ansichten unserer Zeit.
User Review - 10/10 by Fiona BA German movie about 2 half brothers and their life in today society in connection with sexuality. They both reach a point where they cant handle life anymore..... I loved it , its remarkable....

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