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Requiem

2006

Hans-Christian Schmid

Sandra Hüller, Burghart Klaußner, Imogen Kogge, Anna Blomeier ...

5.5

2,025

Drama An epileptic girl suffers a breakdown during her first year at university, then decides to seek help from a priest in battling the troubles associated with her strict upbringing. The Exorcism of Emily Rose was an American movie that based its proposal on true life events, the same ones that return now as the inspiration for this German film that won the coveted Silver Bear Award for best actress at the latest edition of the Berlinale. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Balancing Ms. Hüller’s astonishingly physical performance with an intimate, naturalistic style, 'Requiem' is a moving study of a tortured young woman"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Quietly devastating and unbearably moving, this is a soul-searching classic."	POS
United Kingdom	David Mattin BBC	"A naturalistic and thrillingly powerful film, with a stand-out performance from Hüller at its centre (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It has interesting and sensitive insights (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Michael Koresky IndieWire	"[It] foregrounds character rather than diabolical ominousness, and in so doing lays the properly humanist foundation for one girl’s psychological disintegration"	POS

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