Coming Out
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Movie Reviews of Coming Out
Movie Review: Disappointing Historical Curiosity
Summary: 3 Stars
What is special about this film is that it was the only queer- themed general audience film to come out of East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, reunification, etc. Apart from that, it doesn't have a whole lot to recommend it. Thin characterizations, a decidedly underwritten script, fairly generic "coming out" situations, sluggish pace, confusing holes in the plot and incomplete story lines (what exactly happens to the baby the lead appears to have fathered with his girlfriend?) combine to make this film fall far short of its potential. A climactic monologue delivered by an elderly survivor of the Pink Triangle and the concentration camps doesn't manage to lift the material to the level of seriousness to which it appears to aspire. (I found myself wishing they'd told the old man's story instead of this one.) The erotic material, by today's "Queer as Folk" standards, is remarkably tame (although the lead is attractive enough) and certainly doesn't feel as ground-breaking as it may have when the film was released 12 years ago. Image quality on the DVD is excellent; subtitles are clear and readable. Worth renting, perhaps, but not worth buying, even at Amazaon's generously reduced price.Movie Review: Dark and sad...but important
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is a bit "out there" with scenes that feel unrealistic or overdone. The whole nature of the movie is dark as others have menioned but the point of the movie is still relevant and important...at least in some parts of the world.Bit of a spoiler to follow....
There is no real mystery to this film. Boy, who has met and married girl, meets boy and falls in love but stays with girl until the secret is revealed. Then boy loses everything in a dramatic and crushing way. In 1989 East Berlin, I would guess that this is how gay men were treated. Only guessing though. I think it is how they are still treated in many parts of the world.
The best part was the story that the old man in the bar tells toward the end of the movie. That kind of sums it all up.
Overall: recommended. But don't be surprised if you don't feel much like laughing when it is all over. Will make you think, though....
Movie Review: slow. poor. only deeeeep feelings
Summary: 3 Stars
i don't know why this film got any awards. i might skip the firt part of the movie, it was about nothing. the most important things happens on the second part.
"Straight" gay guy fall in love to gay guy. When gay guy find that his friend married, he left him. "Straight" gay guy understands his nature, but its too late...
Thats all. No ideas, no things that I can think about after movie... It's just a slow file with deep feelings sometime. No humor.
Movie Review: One Worthwhile Aspect: Dirk Kummer's performance
Summary: 2 Stars
"Coming Out" certainly had a worthwhile aspect: Dirk Kummer, as the sensitive Matthias, gave an excellent performance, especially that scene where Matthias finds out that Phillip is married and that single tear rolls down his devastated face. I had a couple of problems with the film, however. The scene in which the skinheads were taunting the black guy and the scene in which those three subways [un-smart] were beating up the [non-straight] guy seemed inauthentic. The viewer could tell that the actors weren't actually striking the victims; the punches and blows looked fake. Another problem: the film score was awful. It sounded like something you'd hear on a episode of the origial Twilight Zone, a disagreeable, atonal string quartet clash; very unsuitable music. A better score would have moved the film up one star for me. Also, there was a scene in which Phillip's (Matthia Freihof) girlfriend embraced him and passionately kissed him in front of his childhood friend, Yakob. It seemed as if she were trying to prove a point, possibly that Phillip was straight. But she knew nothing of Phillip and Yakob's former relationship, so the gesture made absolutely no sense. Finally, the movie ended with unanswered questions. Did Phillip lose his wife forever? What happened to Matthias? I wish those pivotal questions would have been tied up overtly, instead of implicitly. Nevertheless, I especially enjoyed Dirk Kummer's performance. Actually his performance was the only this that made this film worthwhile.Movie Review: bla, bla, bla
Summary: 2 Stars
Very disappoiting. I went through the whole movie expecting something to happen and all of a sudden - oops, has it ended ?!! Sometimes, too much talk, but maybe it'll make sense for a Berlin guy, mainly from that time. Struggling to come out, but come on!