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Amnesia

Play trailer Poster for Amnesia 2015,  1h 36m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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81% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 40% Popcornmeter 50+ Ratings
A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject everything to do with Germany, including her native language.

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Glenn Kenny RogerEbert.com Jul 21, 2017
3.5/4
The film has a personal tone that is not always detectable in his other movies. It enhances a film that's one of the most thoughtful in Schroeder's body of work. Go to Full Review
Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times Jul 20, 2017
An affecting rumination on the moral weight of personal choices. Go to Full Review
Manohla Dargis New York Times Jul 20, 2017
Alas, Mr. Schroeder ... has tethered both his actress and this natural glory to an awkward, unpersuasive story, largely set in the early 1990s, that coalesces around the lingering effects of World War II on the German soul. Go to Full Review
Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site Aug 27, 2020
Amnesia is a very passive piece. The film legitimately expresses deep revulsion for fascism. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Oct 10, 2019
3/5
Through the use of music, mainly blending Jo's techno beat with Martha's classical influences, the underlying message seems to suggest it takes a blending of the past and present to move forward. Go to Full Review
Brigid Presecky FF2 Media Aug 16, 2019
3/5
Despite any lulls, it will make viewers want to visit the world captured. Go to Full Review
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Mar 16, 2019 On Netflix, love Keller. Sorry Bruno Ganz just died.
Harry M Dec 21, 2017 Huge themes, twists and ideas, BUT only adequately acted, unimaginatively written and filmed. Got lost in in itself.
Abraham G Dec 9, 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
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Movie Info

Synopsis A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject everything to do with Germany, including her native language.
Director
Barbet Schroeder
Producer
Margaret Ménégoz, Ruth Waldburger
Screenwriter
Emilie Bickerton, Barbet Schroeder, Peter F. Steinbach, Susan Hoffman
Production Co
Vega Films, arte France Cinéma, Les Films du Losange
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 27, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$8.0K
Runtime
1h 36m
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