Amnesia

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Claudio C @Claudio666 Nov 28 Amnesia (2015) Rethinking Values (12,092 – 28 Nov 2025 – by Claudio Carvalho) In the 90’s, in Ibiza, the late middle-aged Martha Sagell (Marthe Keller) is a German woman that refuses to speak German, to enter in a WV Beetle, to drink German wine or to travel to Germany to resolve pending businesses. Her house is in an isolated area, and she does not have electricity. When her new neighbor, the thirty and something years old German Jo Gellert (Max Riemelt) burns his hand, he knocks at Martha’s door looking for ice. She uses herbs to treat his hand and learns that he is a DJ. Soon they become best friends until the day he discovers she speaks German. When his mother and his grandfather visit him in the island, he learns why Martha denes Germany. "Amnesia" (2015) is a beautiful Swiss French film directed by Barbet Schroeder with a dramatic story of a lonely German woman that lives in Ibiza and denies Germany. When she meets a young German man that is her neighbor, they befriend and both rethinks and changes their values. The plot has a touch of "The Graduate" (1967) but platonic only. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil) "Amnésia" ("Amnesia") My Blog: https://maniacosporfilme.wordpress.com/ See more 08/29/2021 In 1990, shortly after the reunification of East and West Germany, a young German deejay named Jo moves to live in Ibiza, hoping to find employment in the title nightclub there, along with his friends in the same business. He meets Martha, a mysterious elderly woman living alone in a house there, who turns out to have also be German, yet not willing to speak her native language or have any association with her native country. As a friendship between them develops, Martha finally admits her disdain for her former homeland came from seeing ugly secrets at the end of World War Two. Jo knows about them, but only through history classes and from recollections from his mother and grandfather. His career goals becoming achieved, his grandfather and mother come to visit for a dinner...but unsurprisingly conflict develops between them and Martha, and between Jo and his grandfather as he finally reveals his past. What will come of all this? Unfortunately the character development of the first part of the movie feels wasted. Martha and Joe and his relatives come across not as people, but different sides of "how should Germans react to their Nazi past" question. Everything else is anticlimactic after that scene, and the final scene of the movie only feels tacked-on rather than a resolution. The scenery is beautiful and the performances work, but the movie is still an overall letdown. See more 10/01/2019 Loved everything about this beautiful film. See more 03/16/2019 On Netflix, love Keller. Sorry Bruno Ganz just died. See more 12/21/2017 Huge themes, twists and ideas, BUT only adequately acted, unimaginatively written and filmed. Got lost in in itself. See more 12/09/2017 whilst the topic concerning the conduct of a post-war germanic population, those who remained and those who fled, is an interesting subject, obviously it would be absurd to have it re-enacted in one episode of "the muppet show" yet what has been done here with "amnesia" feels not too far from that. a shallow skim across profound subject matter- poorly executed all round: a heavily german accented woman who shocks her fellow countrymen when they discover that she too is in-fact german (!?); a power-point presentation styled one-week love saga between young and old that confronts the problems of both themselves and the world in general in record time; a family visit and luncheon to force feed the viewers more ill-tasting plot; and a discotech success story that had me in uncomfortable squirms on the couch. the "amnesia" disco crowd summed up this movie perfectly for me: dressed in bad taste, terrible acting, many people packed into a small space of a large room to give the [failed] sense of popular success and the coming together of insubstantial elements to try and create an amazing [failed] song and conclude in happiness and resolve [also failed]. such subject matter should be thought out with a bit more sensitivity and nous before being excreted in front of a camera. See more Read all reviews

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