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Where Hands Touch

2018

Amma Asante

Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Christopher Eccleston, Abbie Cornish ...

5.8

193

Drama. Romance Germany 1944: 15-year old Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), daughter of a white German mother and a black father, lives in fear due to the color of her skin. When she meets Lutz (George MacKay), the son of a prominent SS officer and a member of the Hitler Youth - mandatory for all Aryan boys since 1936 - the two fall helplessly in love, putting both their lives at risk.

	Author	Review
United States	Caryn James The Hollywood Reporter	"Beautifully made and moving (...) [A] thoughtful film, whose questions about bigotry, and about passion and compassion, resonate viscerally today"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias Variety	"'Where Hands Touch' comes across merely as clichéd (...) A film about an interracial relationship in Nazi Germany shouldn’t make the audience feel like they’ve seen it all before. "	NEG
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman The Wrap	"Stenberg’s powerful performance may draw teen fans (...) [It] struggles with pacing and an unfocused screenplay, but even these flaws reflect an earnest attempt to grapple with overwhelming historic injustice"	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"A potentially fascinating yet ultimately uninvolving story (...) It’s a film entirely devoid of subtlety yet one that also fails to provide the grand emotion it yearns to deliver (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"Rather than sanitize this fight with romance, Asante uses love to show how uncompromising and inexcusable war is."	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"A disturbing misfire (...) The stridently theatricalized violence is horrific only because it’s so abjectly manipulative."	NEG

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