I can’t believe that this movie was made by the same guy who did The Tourist. I can’t think of a single thing they share in their cinema DNA. Instead, it has more in common with Coppola’s underwatched 1974 surveillance film The Conversation, which was awesome. The Lives of Others, by comparison, is decent. It moves pretty slow, but the subject is interesting and Ulrich Mühe’s performance kept me from tuning out completely. For the subject matter, you would have thought they could have ramped up some horror movie level tension though.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Short Round: Das Leben der Anderen (2006) ***/*****
I can’t believe that this movie was made by the same guy who did The Tourist. I can’t think of a single thing they share in their cinema DNA. Instead, it has more in common with Coppola’s underwatched 1974 surveillance film The Conversation, which was awesome. The Lives of Others, by comparison, is decent. It moves pretty slow, but the subject is interesting and Ulrich Mühe’s performance kept me from tuning out completely. For the subject matter, you would have thought they could have ramped up some horror movie level tension though.
