Film Review of Good Bye Lenin
Year: 2003 Reviewer: Chris Docker
I know it takes a lot to tempt non-addicts into the cinema to see a foreign language film, but this is one that is worth it, honest. An improbably yet believable and endearing storyline, Goodbye Lenin gives you history, irresistible and original humour, and depth of human emotion, underplayed as in all good European cinema, that leaves you leaving the cinema feeling more satisfied than if it were only for laughs.
East Germany, shortly before the Berlin Wall goes down. A young man's mother has a heart attack and wakes up from a after the wall has come down. To prevent further shocks, her son and his friends arrange her flat to make her believe nothing has changed.
A beautiful film, and a valuable one.
Rating: 8/10
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