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Nichts als Gespenster (2006)

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Tourists are nothing but ghosts who are endlessly clicking boring photos., 11 August 2008

Author: Lalit Rao (cpowerccc@yahoo.com) from Paris, France

In "Nichts Als Gespenster",we have been shown that most of the relationships fail as people have a lot of ego.As young people do not wish to remain true to themselves,it is quite possible for their relationships to fall apart.Martin Gypkens films five unsteady German couples who do not have any basis of stability in their relationships. His film has nice scenes of Grand Canyon,Venice and Iceland.This film is based on two books, Nothing But Ghosts and The Summer House written by acclaimed German writer Judith Hermann.This is one of the few German films where German attitudes,continual craze,growing fascination and everlasting desire of German people for tourism have been questioned.At times,it appears as if the entire tourism business has been ridiculed. After talking to an American man,a German couple realizes that they have made a mistake by not having children.This couple learns that tourism is nothing but a passing fad.It is by watching this film that we learn that real sorrows just do not disappear from the minds of people as they invariably travel in order to escape realities around them.

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Adults living teenage lives, 29 September 2007

Author: richard_sleboe from Germany

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that every single car in this movie is a Toyota? Never mind. So much is wrong with Martin Gypkens' second big-screen picture that somehow the massive product placement feels like the least of its evils. The plot, sluggishly cobbled together from a selection of Judith Hermann's most blasé short stories, is a random parade of self-absorbed thirty-somethings without a thing on their mind. But what they lack in real life, they more than make up for by their whims and vanities. Everybody's talking, everybody's smoking, nobody goes to work. It's sort of like a French movie minus the good-looking actors, with the possible exceptions of Stipe Erceg and Jessica Schwarz. Global location scouting, high-gloss cinematography and heavy-handed set design are entirely wasted on one of this season's most pointless productions. Oh, and if Chiara Schoras (in the part of stage actress Ruth), though I'm sure she thinks it's the pinnacle of seduction, keeps grinning like that, no doubt her face will pop sometime soon. Everybody, don't waste your time with this bloodless geek show.

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