Friday, April 20, 2007

Paul und Paula

It's nice. Also it's about GDR. Paula is all feeling and Sehnsucht, and also she's in love with Paul. She has children which she rather accidentally acquired in the search of men before. Paul is very honest and good-hearted, that's why his wife cheats on him. He loves Paula because she never would, but he also loves his son. But he also loves Paula. I liked how laconically and curtly the story is told, especially at the beginning when both their first partnerships are elapsing in the rhythms of some seemingly universal pattern, from which Paula's dreams then fly to surreal places of flower-covered drifting; and how the movie ends, just as laconically, yet warm.

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