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This movie by german director Doris Dörrie is very weak.
It's mainly the dialogue (the cinematography is as always
with Ms Dörrie very good), but these people seem to live
in a parallel universe which has nothing to do with any
real human being living in Germany. It seems to portray
some kind of Munich high society which german filmmakers
love (f.ex. Rossini) but who no one else in Germany really
cares about. Besides I doubt that it exists in the way they
like to portray it. So what's the point then? What's the point...
Good question which could sum up the experience one has by
seeing this movie which is not good nor bad. And this is the
worst kind of movie... A bad movie at least leaves the pleasure
to make sarcastic comments... This one here... nothing...

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I thought this was one of the best movies I've ever seen! The connections between characters, the chemistry, etc. I just thought that is made so much sense. I am dying to see it again... is it out on DVD or VHS? I can't find it anywhere...

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May depend on which country you live in - there is a German DVD which I have because I liked the film very much. That's a region 2 issue, don't know whether you'll be happy with that one. I'll check again with my provider, and if it's still available I'll post the link later.

Greets, Rosabel

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The dvd was also released in Canada (region 1) as Naked (Le Defi)

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I live in Paris and would love to get the region 2 dvd; any suggestions?

thanks
Nancy

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I have the region 2 DVD, you can find it here (but I guess in other online shops as well): http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/movie/detail/-/hnum/6946157/rk/movie/rsk/hitlist#ancproduktinfo

Unfortunately it has no French or English subtitles, only German ones for people with hearing deficiency, so I don't know whether this is of any help for you.

Regards, Rosabel

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@ luxfux:

> but these people seem to live
in a parallel universe which has nothing to do with any
real human being living in Germany. It seems to portray
some kind of Munich high society which german filmmakers
love (f.ex. Rossini) but who no one else in Germany really
cares about.

I don't know in which kind of parallel universe you are living - I mean, confounding the "Rossini" characters with the ones of this Dörrie movie takes some effort or some ignorance. Both of them are consistent and real, more so than seems to please you, and that no one else in Germany cares for them is *your* idea. IMO one of Dörries great assets is the dialogs in almost all her movies which are very much to the point, very poignant and true to life. I seem to have met all the characters of her movies before I saw them on the screen. That's why I think her movies are so funny.

Regards, Rosabel

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I didnt understand it. I just remember the naked people!

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Yea Alexandra Maria Lara is naked .... great? eh? :D

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It was alright. And I suppose it reinforces your argument. It wasn't particularly good. It tried to achieve something, but I think it fails. But isn't the most important thing is that it tries?

"I don't know about what happened. . . because once you start writing, it all becomes fiction."

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I loved this movie. I found it had a profound thought behind it. We spend so much time on our bodies, but what are they, really? Perhaps it was only that conversation between Annette and her fiancee that I loved, but it was enough for me. Or perhaps it's that I live in Canada and am starved of these kinds of films... (I love German films...)

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This was such a bad one. The book was ok (although there are better ones from Doris Dörrie) but it was a light and pleasant read, but the movie? I found it extremely artificial, the dialogues quite nerve-wracking (I mean, are there really men who talk like this with their partners? As if they were on a constant pseudo-philosophical trip?). Weird. This movie pretends to be "intelligent and sensitive" but it's just shallow to the max.

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The movie is based on a play, which is why the dialogue sounds wrong (for a movie) or at least different.

I found it somewhat jarring. Some rewriting wouldn't have hurt.

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this is the german equivalent of sex in the city, or desperate housewives

It isn't art...but this film is the zeitgeist for me...mediocre films by mediocre vacuous directors.

We were warned about this kind of society by Baudrillard...and I see it is happening in Germany too.

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