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The Edukators

The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei)

2004

Hans Weingartner

Julia Jentsch, Daniel Brühl, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner ...

7.2

15,720

Drama When Jule is evicted from her flat because she can't pay the insurance for a car accident, she moves in with boyfriend Peter and his friend Jan. She soon discovers that the two youths have the curious passtime of breaking into mansions, and carefully rearrange the furniture. She convinces the pair to pay a visit to the home of her creditor, but it doesn't go exactly to plan, and soon the snide businessman is their captive.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"A fluid and gripping drama (...) is the first film to anatomize the contradictions of the rage-against-the-machine generation."	POS
United States	Ray Bennett The Hollywood Reporter	"A terrific movie that boasts intelligent wit, expert storytelling, delightful characters and grown-up dialogue plus suspense and a wicked surprise ending"	POS
United States	Walter Addiego SFGATE	"'The Edukators' functions best as a loose portrait of the current generation of rebellious idealists. With greater critical distance on the filmmaker's part (...) it might have been something substantial."	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"A deft, entertaining story that mixes menace with charm and satire with seriousness."	POS
United States	Tasha Robinson Chicago Tribune	"The film's daring, honest ending helps redeem the uneven drama, but the road there may occasionally try the patience of even the most sympathetic armchair revolutionaries"	NEU
United States	Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times	"A sweet, funny and gripping romantic adventure, it's about the limitations of political activism in this day and age, and what happens when your girlfriend and your best friend fall in love"	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	Ambling drama shows an exasperating lack of economy and a weakness for diatribe dialogue, but b"ecomes progressively more involving after a laborious start"	NEU

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