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Thursday, January 3. 2008

The Lives of Others

From a new review of the film:

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others, now available on DVD, is the best feature film debut by a director since Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. Coming it seemed out of nowhere and defying all the conventional wisdom of the motion picture industry, Donnersmarck achieved a remarkable commercial and critical success with his first full-length film, culminating when it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Picture of 2006.

The Lives of Others fully deserves all the awards it garnered. Evidently a perfectionist, Donnersmarck created a film that is near perfect in every respect. It deals seriously and profoundly with an important but sadly neglected subject—communist tyranny in East Germany—and the screenplay Donnersmarck carefully crafted over several years does full justice to his central theme of injustice.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 12:05 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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the best!! too bad the lead died shortly after the release of this film.
#1 opie on 2008-01-03 14:20 (Reply)
oh, that was definitely in my stocking this year. great movie. another recent german film (2003) worthy of the awards it received was goodbye lenin! directed by wolfgang becker. a little lighter than the lives of others.
#2 kab on 2008-01-03 15:28 (Reply)
I saw this movie a while back on the recommendation of Rush. I thought it was excellent. Apparently those on the left liked the movie also, but they compare what happened in communist E Germany to what is happening in George Bushes America today. They haven't a clue.
#3 sean on 2008-01-03 18:52 (Reply)

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