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Released Sep 16, 2011

1h 44m

Comedy

Drama

LGBTQ+

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A bisexual man (Devid Striesow) has affairs with both members (Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper) of a longtime couple who have lost their sexual spark.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

The film is successful in an absorbing sort of way, but underwhelming.

Rated: 2.5/4

Nov 17, 2011

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John Hartl

Seattle Times

Tykwer's script is structured so that the audience knows more about the characters' connections than they do. As each faces a midlife crisis/turning point, fate sometimes appears to be calling the shots.

Rated: 3/4

Nov 3, 2011

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Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Tykwer can't seem to turn Hanna, Simon and Adam into real people. They feel like pawns in the service of a more cerebral diversion than the game of life.

Rated: 2/4

Oct 21, 2011

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Julian Lytle

Ignorant Bliss

Overall 3 is a very engaging film with it's look on a long standing relationship. There is no real Hollywood type of way they solve their issues or have epiphanies about problems in their lives at the right perfect moment.

Rated: B

Jan 11, 2020

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: C

Jan 18, 2013

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Richard Knight

Knight at the Movies

The movie's too sleek and chilly and doesn't exactly call to mind a warm, romantic comedy.

Jan 13, 2012

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Audience Member

Absolutely loved it! The movie shows humans as individual creatures. Humans are not seen as 'the same type multiplied', but rather as something that is constantly developing, changing and moving. Very smooth role play. At times one may question some why's, however it ends up questioning one's own life.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Audience Member

A romance triangle never before told and pray that this movie is not foretelling a new idea of an extended family where there may exist no more sexual boundaries.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

Amazing and thought provoking. Challenging the conventional social norm of relationships.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

A very interesting and sexy film with nice character development and fine acting. It suffers a little from wanting to say too much and becomes somewhat pretentious at times.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Retomando el cine aleman

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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it's weird. it kinda has a bland taste left in the mouth in retrospect (like, looking back, it looks kind of basic), but at the time, it was encapsulating and fun.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Synopsis

A bisexual man (Devid Striesow) has affairs with both members (Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper) of a longtime couple who have lost their sexual spark.

Director: Tom Tykwer
Producer: Stefan Arndt
Screenwriter: Tom Tykwer
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, X-Filme Creative Pool
Genre: Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 16, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $59.8K
Runtime: 1h 44m

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