Homesick

2015

1h 38m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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50%

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8 Reviews

46%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Jessica, an ambitious cello student, moves into a new flat, with her boyfriend Lorenz. When she receives the honorable invitation to represent Germany in an international contest for classical music it seems to be a great opportunity – but at the same time an enormous pressure. In her home, Jessica starts preparing meticulously for the contest. However, her own four walls don't appear to shelter her as Jessica finds herself increasingly exposed to small and major anonymous harassments. What is the neighbor's involvement, who mysteriously pries behind half-closed curtains?

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Erwa gets most of the credit for this with his cagey plotting, but he couldn't have pulled it off without veteran actress Tatja Seibt as the woman upstairs; her blunt features suggest a harsh intent but can also soften in vulnerability.

Oct 22, 2015

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Tim Grierson

Screen International

A modest heartbreaker.

Sep 14, 2015

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Leslie Felperin

Hollywood Reporter

The film goes so far out of its way to avoid seeming lurid or melodramatic it ends up being almost emotionally incomprehensible in its obliqueness.

Sep 14, 2015

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Ian Barr

Cinema Scope

Sewitsky's strenuous attempts to make an unsensational and non-judgemental film on a weighty subject result in a film that throws its back out.

Oct 16, 2017

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Alex Heeney

Seventh Row

There are no Hollywood endings here, but there is hope.

Aug 14, 2017

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Norman Wilner

NOW Toronto

Wilmann's smiling-on-the-outside misery is riveting: she's playing someone who doesn't know what she wants, but knows what she needs -- and hates herself for it.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 14, 2015

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Rolando U

If you don't understand this movie, be happy, that means that you're OK. Only certain people are prepared for this kind of info even nowadays, for me this movie deserves to spend time watching it. For me is just a reminder that we are all humans.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/14/15

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WS W

Baseless, & confusing.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/09/15

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Jakob M. Erwa

Director

Esther Maria Pietsch

Jessica Klug

Matthias Lier

Lorenz Amann

Tatja Seibt

Hilde Domweber

Hermann Beyer

Helmut Domweber

Eric Bouwer

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Synopsis

Jessica, an ambitious cello student, moves into a new flat, with her boyfriend Lorenz. When she receives the honorable invitation to represent Germany in an international contest for classical music it seems to be a great opportunity – but at the same time an enormous pressure. In her home, Jessica starts preparing meticulously for the contest. However, her own four walls don't appear to shelter her as Jessica finds herself increasingly exposed to small and major anonymous harassments. What is the neighbor's involvement, who mysteriously pries behind half-closed curtains?

Director: Jakob M. Erwa
Screenwriter: Jakob M. Erwa
Production Co: Domar Film, Mojo:pictures
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: German
Runtime: 1h 38m

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