vetmad

I'd never have thought that a German, well it's actually more a Bavarian movie, could be this exceptional anymore. But it continues the line of rare Bavarian films that capture life in all its facets, in the great tradition of Franz Xaver Bogner's "Irgendwie & Sowieso" from the 1980s. It's true and funny, sad and heartwarming, telling a grand story with an outstandingly authentic cast, an exceptionally good soundtrack in beautiful pictures. If you want to be entertained well for an evening and you want more than just a cheap laugh, go see this movie (despite its strange title, meaning something like "The sooner you die, the longer you'll be dead") and see Bavaria beyond all kitsch!

It reminded me a bit of "Lost in Translation" or "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind": quiet, enjoyable, romantic, intelligent, one of those films that keeps you thinking for some time after having left the theater. I liked Josh Hartnett's shy performance of a guy helplessly in love with a girl and even Diane Krueger was okay, since she actually had to play and not just display her beautiful face on a huge screen as she had to do in "Troy". Matthew Lillard in particular is honest fun to watch as he plays his character with such light wholeheartedness and so obviously enjoying himself, it really is a rare pleasure (since he often tends to lapse into behaving like a goof ball). If you look for something entertaining on a higher level, maybe on a cold Winter's evening, that's your movie.