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One Day We'll Tell Each Other Everything

One Day We'll Tell Each Other Everything

One Day We'll Tell Each Other Everything

No pun intended - mixing two or rather even three titles into one summary thing. Well you know me - maybe. If you have read some of my reviews. This being a german movie, I did use the term "ossi" which is how germans that are from west Germany used to call people who were from east Germany. Wessi would be the other way around - so we got both. That being said, the title I sort of took here as inspiration is from the movie Rebel without a cause. In Germany the movie is called "denn sie wissen nicht was sie tun" - because they do not know what they do. Which is also something from the bible. Both applicable to the movie - and that's why I mixed them and used it. Funnily enough, because I had forgotten the title of the movie, I ordered the ticket at my cinema under the german title of the James Dean movie. Back to the movie at hand though. It may seem and/or feel that the movie has no purpose. No goal for the characters ... well maybe growing up. But especially from the beginning, we do not know what our main character wants ... she lives in the now united Germany ... not that you can feel a lot of it ... and it is not about that overall. It is about her and her story. That said, the aftermath of the inclusion is being made a topic from time to time. And while this is happening in the background, our main character has an awakening ... a sexual and love awakening. Which means you will be getting quite a lot of nudity ... be aware of that ... it should not bother you. Sometimes it may make you uncomfortable ... long pauses, where you can feel the sensuality ... you can feel an outburst is coming any minute/second ... which is not easy or comfortable for some, especially when watching it with others (in a cinema for example). A lolita kind of story - embeded in a historical context then. Although as we learn later not exactly lolita. While I was certain the actress was older (22 or 23 I think at the time of shooting), it is never clear how old her character is supposed to be. Which makes her ... sexual life even more ... well weird I reckon. Again, depending on your sensibilities. Towards the end we learn she was 18 at the beginning of the movie - so all legal ... the drama surrounding her ... well there does not seem to be an easy way out ... and I guess in the end there isn't one - at least not without someone losing their mind/head ...

... a twenty-something Marlene Burow is the only reason watching this quickly-gets-to-being-boring movie... a seemingly-intelligent-teenager being attracted to abusive-sex with a forty-year-old farmer is a far stretch... a dramatic ending relieves viewers of all nonsensical-possibilities ... when watching a beautiful young woman having sex gets boring, you know the film has lost it's core-interest.. all the East-West reunification symbolism gets gibberished... it's a film that wants viewers to think more about other things, but then directs them to sex-scenes again and again... well made, just not-well-written-directed.

In the shimmering summer of 1990, two German states still existed. The WÄHRUNGSUNION (monetary union) has just been completed, and it should still be three months before the WIEDERVEREINIGUNG (reunification). 18-year-old Maria (Marlene BUROW) lives with her boyfriend of the same age on his parents farm, somewhere in the Thuringian countryside. Life there still seems very archaic, like it might have been in the 1950s. Maria lives for the day, skips school and reads THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. The relationship with her mother (Jördis TRIEBEL), who lives in the neighboring village, seems to be somewhat clouded. Only the encounter with 40-year-old Henner (Felix KRAMER), who lives alone on a neighboring farm, breaks Maria out of her lethargy. It is the beginning of a passionate amour fou that crosses many boundaries. The taciturn yet charismatic man reveals an irritating mix of vulnerability and brutality to which Maria feels magically drawn. Disappointed certainties of life and the premonition of coming changes erupt into intoxicating sexuality... The impressive film by director Emily ATEF (born 1973), based on Daniela KRIENs (born 1975) bestseller of the same name (published in 2011), paints an apt portrait of this very special summer. The shimmering heat of 1990, the overarching upheaval and the reversal of all previous certainties are brought to the big screen in a congenial and powerful way. This film is a great artistic achievement, and not just for the otherwise often lifeless German-speaking cinema! A masterpiece created under the Thuringian sun that can tell a lot about German-German spiritual landscapes!

An achingly beautiful tale of a young woman torn between two lovers. She finds in each what the other doesn't provide. Gorgeous cinematography, top notch acting. And authentically captures the emotional seesaw of being a young adult, wanting safety/security but also wanting to explore the new and different. It's nothing new but it is exceptionally well done. It takes place in rural East Germany, just at the time of reunification. Maybe that's symbolic, as life is about to change drastically but in the moment, the East was still 40 years behind West Germany. I have not read the source novel, so I cannot compare-contrast the film to book.

I must admit, that that movie is a something different. That happen on a hot summer in small, picturesque village. Young, bookish girl met a much older, outcast from the village. She started to be drawn to him even though he's brutal and doesn't speak much. But he reads poems.... Sounds unreal? Why not? I also fell for a much older man, when I was young. I'm also can relay with her in the other things. I remember the end of the communism in Poland. That unsure what future will bring us, lots of jobless people but also hope and joy that we could buy things that we coudn't afford earlier. And those amazing pictures, full of summer sun. You could almost smell the greenery, and fell the hot air. So that's not only a love story, but also a portrait of people during the radical changes. And story about the choices we he to take. If you are fed up with common movies ended with a weddind bells, watch that. Cos this movie is something else.

It is strange to see such scandalously bad movie from an established female director who is not green anymore and should not been wasted after a long career. But the movie has only one good element: the decent, even beautiful camerawork and nice set ups. Otherway the movie is so full of banal clichés that it is painful to watch. Story is set to nice countryside somewhere in East Germany and the year should be 1990. The environment is a pretty large farm and its people. And their neighbour, a classic dark romantic hero, a wannabe poet and horse rider Henner. Of course, the farmer's son Johannes, an aspiring artist and photographer, has something like a girlfriend Maria, a 18 years old fashion model like looking and acting woman. She, of course, according all the clichè-s, "falls in love" (if you wanna call it so) with the Henner. And they make "love" (if you must call it somehow), one time, second time, third time.... OK, the movie is about the cliché-s. East German people -- naive, stupid, dull, constantly whining losers full of ostalgia driving around with noisy Trabants. West German people -- smart, successful, handsome people driving around with Mercedes. And sure, the constant talking about STASI, brainwashing, prisoning etc is obvious. The main characters. Henner is a stereotypical romantic hero. Dark, handsome, horse riding 40 years old macho with his badass cabrio VAZ Niva. Two barking dogs following him everywhere and he is living alone in some big country house. He is mumbling some minimalistic verses and is, of course, a heavy drinker. Maria, the 18 years old protagonist -- a fashion model looking and acting woman who wants to be with Henner. But Marlene Burow acts so emotionless and dumb that it is really hard to understand her motives at all. This kind of character belongs to big cities and push her career not to sit in the countryside and have some strange relationship with a peasant. 18 years old Johannes (Cedric Eich) is supposed to be like some classic beta male, a naive loser with his ridiculous moustaches, but somehow his self confidence, sheer ambition, strong mentality and pure love makes him the most positive hero in the movie. Although Henner is clearly supposed to be the "true" alpha male, it is only the surface -- his deep inner weakness and narcissistic traits makes the character finally laughable and tragic comical. The dummie acting by Marlene Burow ruins the movie a lot and it is not saved by others efforts. The constructed script does not help much too. Dialogues are boring, repetitive. A lot of senseless and useless scenes which do not lead anywhere. The sex scenes are violent, rude, close to rape and not erotic or romantic at all. All the romance looks nasty, violent and worse for all, totally boring. And then, suddenly the movie ends. With a really hardcore cliché scene which nails the coffin of the bad movie very well.