I wasn't overly impressed with this movie (I watched it as a movie). Firstly, the marketing did not fit with the story: it was said to be about how a marriage can fall apart when the children have moved out, but in the movie the wife had already began the search for a flat of her own before their daughter had moved out...
And then, there were some odd scenes that I did not like. The husband spying on his ex-wife when she was having sex with a new man, for instance. And the fact that the wife and her boy-friend had sex with the blinds up, so that it was possible for every passerby to see... The instance of cruelty to a bird was not a favourite scene of mine either. The vet who used her work to get into contact with men, neither - that is a very unprofessional and unsuitable behaviour. Not to say odd.
But most of all I did not like to see Walter Sittler's naked, aging body. I have admired Mr Sittler, at one time I almost had a crush on him - that was when he played the leading man in "Ein Geschenk des Himmels". I have liked him a lot as the "Kommissar" as well. But now I feel that he has sunk, and watching him in the older movies will not be the same anymore, either... :-(
With this said, "Eltern allein zu Haus" is still a good enough movie, it is quite nice in parts and there ARE things here that you can relate to if you are in that situation yourself (middle-aged, long marriage, newly divorced, children moving out...). And that might be a help.
And then, there were some odd scenes that I did not like. The husband spying on his ex-wife when she was having sex with a new man, for instance. And the fact that the wife and her boy-friend had sex with the blinds up, so that it was possible for every passerby to see... The instance of cruelty to a bird was not a favourite scene of mine either. The vet who used her work to get into contact with men, neither - that is a very unprofessional and unsuitable behaviour. Not to say odd.
But most of all I did not like to see Walter Sittler's naked, aging body. I have admired Mr Sittler, at one time I almost had a crush on him - that was when he played the leading man in "Ein Geschenk des Himmels". I have liked him a lot as the "Kommissar" as well. But now I feel that he has sunk, and watching him in the older movies will not be the same anymore, either... :-(
With this said, "Eltern allein zu Haus" is still a good enough movie, it is quite nice in parts and there ARE things here that you can relate to if you are in that situation yourself (middle-aged, long marriage, newly divorced, children moving out...). And that might be a help.
