I have to disagree almost totally with the above comments. Knowing nothing of Til Schweiger's other films this is certainly a very timely and extremely sensitive little master-piece played out mainly between the alternating emotions of grief and joy, trust and disgust. I hope it is very quickly and elegantly dubbed into English so that it can shed its enormous light on the deterioration of the individual's personality and the enormously divisive elements experienced by those families, nearest and dearest, as they try to come to terms with the loss of the personality of their loved one, whilst retaining the body which still needs maintenance, plus the individual's one or two surviving but deteriorating memories. Demographically this is an enormous and growing problem with which society is confronted and the film sheds some very welcome, compassionate light on the problems very many of us will doubtless face.
Both the Grandfather and Granddaughter were absolutely masterfully portrayed, worthy I would say of little less than Oscars, certainly in the case of Tilda.
In terms of popularity I saw it in Bocholt yesterday evening. There were between 70 and 100 people there. It was more or less the last showing, having been retained for 13 weeks. Word got round! It is a word worth repeating: WATCH! David
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Mr. Bug
9 years ago
Film is rubbish. The film makers' idea to deal with Alzheimer is to present a "funny" gag every other minute or so in the first half (naughty/nasty talk during a funeral, sex obsessed old people misbehaving, alzheimer affected grandpa urinating in the fridge, jealous husband hitting wife's boss she had an affair with while grandpa torches down the ongoing party, grandpa using food in the restaurant for a facial (plus sledgehammer lesson in tolerance for a presumably racist guest)...). The second half slows down a bit on the cheap laughs front and turns the film into a road movie. More tolerable but still far from a truly sensitive approach to this delicate subject. There are far far better films about this subject but then again, these are not crowd pleasers. It's simply not a crowd pleasing subject.
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dxben99
9 years ago
OK....until I read your suggestion to give Emma Schweiger an Oscar, I really thought you were being serious. Good one. :)
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