Mother of young Alex has a heart-attack and falls into a deep coma in 1989, and when she comes out of it (about 8 months later), finds that the BRD and DDR have re-united into 1 Germany. Well, she should have found that out anyway...
But Alex fears his mother (and her weak heart) won't survive such a shock and acts like nothing happened, changing their appartment back East Germany style. He even puts all their food back in typical DDR jars and makes up his own news-coverage with friend and starting director Denis.
Movie has a lot of things going for it but it's just way too long. After a while, bed-bound mother Christiane 'escapes' her appartment and goes outside. There's a wonderful scene with a Lenin statue flying by, and this should have been about the end of the movie. But instead it goes on and has the father introduced in the movie, being re-united with his old family... there's just too much going on.
Music by Tiersen isn't as brilliant as in Amelie, but he gets the job done, as this movie is okay, but not as good as I expected. I'll give it 6/10.
But Alex fears his mother (and her weak heart) won't survive such a shock and acts like nothing happened, changing their appartment back East Germany style. He even puts all their food back in typical DDR jars and makes up his own news-coverage with friend and starting director Denis.
Movie has a lot of things going for it but it's just way too long. After a while, bed-bound mother Christiane 'escapes' her appartment and goes outside. There's a wonderful scene with a Lenin statue flying by, and this should have been about the end of the movie. But instead it goes on and has the father introduced in the movie, being re-united with his old family... there's just too much going on.
Music by Tiersen isn't as brilliant as in Amelie, but he gets the job done, as this movie is okay, but not as good as I expected. I'll give it 6/10.