"Liebe mich!" (a title probably even worse than this film) is a German movie from 2 years ago written and directed by Philipp Eichholtz, who is an aspiring German filmmaker that was in his 30s when he shot this one. It is a fairly short movie as, even with the ending credits, it only runs for roughly 80 minutes. The title "Love me!" refers to the main character's longing to be loved, not only in an amorous sense, but also by her father. So the movie is about family struggles and relationships, but also about the protagonist's problems of succeeding in the world of business. Lilli Meinhardt plays the main role and while I did not feel she was really good, she was okay overall I guess. I am not familiar with any of the other actors in here, so you can check out the list yourself. I think most of them did fairly solid, but nobody really stood out. Even I as a German film buff have not heard of many of these names.
As a whole, this is a film that goes for realism instead of fiction. What we see in here is a story that is basically happening in a similar fashion many times. Nothing really spectacular happens and as a consequence of that I also have to wonder if these characters here are really interesting enough (also the main character) to justify a film. Your choice to make. I found it fairly bland overall. It's absolutely fine to go for a convincing character study I must say and you don't have to go for showiness or great tragedy or drama, but only if you manage to elaborate convincingly on the characters and come up with a subtly impressive work. I would not say that Eichholtz succeeded to that regard here. But he was still pretty young and I hope he can step things up in the future. This film is far from a failure and there are some strong moments included. But ultimately the bad outweighs the good and one very drastic example of that is the ending which is the worst case of feel-good and forced happy ending you can think of. It has nothing to do with reality. 5 minutes earlier, the main character had big arguments with her boyfriend and her dad and then, it is all fixed out of nowhere all of a sudden. Sadly, this film hit rock-bottom at the very end and it's nearly impossible to look past that. I give "Liebe mich!" a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
As a whole, this is a film that goes for realism instead of fiction. What we see in here is a story that is basically happening in a similar fashion many times. Nothing really spectacular happens and as a consequence of that I also have to wonder if these characters here are really interesting enough (also the main character) to justify a film. Your choice to make. I found it fairly bland overall. It's absolutely fine to go for a convincing character study I must say and you don't have to go for showiness or great tragedy or drama, but only if you manage to elaborate convincingly on the characters and come up with a subtly impressive work. I would not say that Eichholtz succeeded to that regard here. But he was still pretty young and I hope he can step things up in the future. This film is far from a failure and there are some strong moments included. But ultimately the bad outweighs the good and one very drastic example of that is the ending which is the worst case of feel-good and forced happy ending you can think of. It has nothing to do with reality. 5 minutes earlier, the main character had big arguments with her boyfriend and her dad and then, it is all fixed out of nowhere all of a sudden. Sadly, this film hit rock-bottom at the very end and it's nearly impossible to look past that. I give "Liebe mich!" a thumbs-down. Not recommended.