I'm sure you've seen some of these-
Good Bye, Lenin!
Good Bye, Lenin!
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003, Wolfgang Becker)
GBG, we have similar taste in movies, especially the 'don't like stuff'. So I've went through my old Foreign Language list and found films that I really think are right up your alley, I'd rate all of these or better
Good Bye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker 2003) Fun drama about an East German family. It's light and entertaining.
Good Bye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker 2003) Fun drama about an East German family. It's light and entertaining.
I watched Good Bye Lenin! (2003) - I almost turned this movie off after about 20 minutes because it felt like I was watching a history lesson, but I decided to continue, and I'm glad that I did. It took a while for me to get into the movie, but once it got into the part where the family was trying to protect the mother by hiding the political changes, it got interesting.
While it was obvious how much Alex loved his mother, I also wondered how much of what he was doing was because he felt guilty about causing her heart attack. I would have liked to see more interaction between some of the other family members and the mother, but it didn't really hurt the movie either.
But there were a few minor things bothered me. For example, when Alex found his mother's hidden money. They got rid of the old furniture while the mother was still in the hospital, and it took them a while to ask her about the money, and her a while to remember where she hid it, so why was the old furniture still sitting outside in a junk pile? Shouldn't it have been removed months ago? And why did he throw the "worthless" money off the roof? He only went to one bank to try to exchange it. Maybe there was somewhere else that it could have been exchanged? He didn't even try to find another place to exchange it. And the thing that bothered me the most was when Alex woke up and his mother's bed was empty, and he ran outside to find her, he left the baby all alone in the house. I know that he wasn't thinking about the baby in that moment, and he needed to find his mother ASAP, but it still bothered me.
But while this movie was a bit far-fetched, it was still an enjoyable movie to watch.
Thanks for the recommendation.
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