In July [Im Juli]
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Movie Reviews of In July [Im Juli]
Movie Review: Good stuff
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a comedy/drama that is about a dull nerdy guy that doesn't have a snowball's chance getting a girl. A necklace suddenly changes all of that, and he goes on a wild ride to Turkey. This is definately good stuff from Bleibtreu. He does a lot more acting in this than Run Lola Run. I understand German pretty well, but there are a couple of spots that I went back and turned on the subtitles. The accents sometimes get a little thick from the cast of characters he encouters.Movie Review: This a good romance comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
I like it very much, and it has it good parts. I like the part that when Daniel tries to jump Danube river with the car when you know he is not going to make it. This a good romance comedy. A german language must have movieMovie Review: pleased
Summary: 5 Stars
The dvd arrived right on time. Quality is great! If I had to choose I would do business with this merchant again.Movie Review: Warm, Daring, and Wonderful Love Trip...
Summary: 4 Stars
The aspiring teacher Daniel Bannier (Moritz Bleibtreu) has just finished his last day before summer break as a substitute teacher. Daniel has planned to stay in Hamburg over the summer sitting in solitude on his balcony reading books about physics and listening to jazz while everyone else is leaving for an exotic vacation. A boring stiff could sum up Daniel's persona before he met the street vendor Juli (Christiane Paul) who has fallen in love with Daniel. Juli urges Daniel to buy a Mayan ring with the mark of a sun from her as she reveals for him that the love of his life will be wearing a sun. Juli is scheming a love trap for Daniel as she invites him to a street party, however, Daniel is unaware Juli's affections for him and instead meets meets Melek (Idil Üner), a beautiful Turkish girl, as Juli is late to the party.Melek needs to find a place for the night and she is flying to Turkey the next morning. However, she unveils that she is to meet her beloved under the bridge at Bosphorus strait that divides two continents. After Daniel has dropped off Melek at the airport he realizes that he must go to Istanbul in order to meet her under the bridge. When Daniel begins his journey he sees a hitchhiker whom he picks up, and it is no other than Juli who has decided to escape her sad loss of Daniel by travel. This is the beginning of a long journey for Daniel as he is forced to leave his secure little world and do a lot of things that he would never otherwise have done.
In July is a wonderful love story that offers much laughter and entertainment as the audience probably can relate to the feelings of both Daniel and Juli. Most of the story is told in a flashback as Daniel tells his tale for a mysterious man with a corpse in the trunk, which adds a level of suspense to the film. In the end, Faith Akin has directed a terrific cinematic experience that can lighten the heaviest of hearts and share some hope for those in need of a cheering up.
Movie Review: Following the Sun Across Eastern Europe: Fresh Road Movie/Romatic Comedy from Germany
Summary: 4 Stars
Endearing German comedy `In July' follows the fate of one bespectacled timid math teacher Daniel (Moritz Bleibtreu), who finds a true love on the road to Turkey. Actually, he has already found it in Hamburg where he lives and teaches - her name is Juli with whom he travels (played by charming Christiane Paul) -- but too innocent Daniel just cannot realize that.
Part road movie, part romantic comedy, part slapstick action, `In July' is free from formulaic structures of Hollywood-made romantic comedies. Like `another European comedy `Black Cat, White Cat' the film is about the unstoppable energy of Daniel and Juli and those whom they encounter while traveling in Eastern Europe. The film may look inconsequential to some, and perhaps it is so, but `In July' is still a feel-good comedy with a healthy doze of romance against the background of cross-cultural experiences.
Moritz Bleibtreu is very good (as always) at playing a character who finds himself in the wrong place as in `Run Lola Run', but the true star of the film is Christiane Paul as free-spirited and independent Juli who leads the shy Daniel into the place where he as ordinary teacher would never dreamed of entering. Equally impressive is the `crazy' girl Luna played by beautiful and sexy Branka Katic, a van driver who guides Daniel into a seedy café in Budapest.
Not everything succeeds, it is true, and Daniel's innocence often looks too implausible, but `In July' is more charming than irritating. Director Fatih Akin's story is patchy and sometimes impossible, but the film is refreshing and appealing nonetheless.