Movie Reviews for Winter Sleepers

Winter Sleepers

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Movie Reviews of Winter Sleepers

Movie Review: Wnter Sleepers
Summary: 3 Stars

winter sleepers is a good movie but kind of weird. I liked it ok and i can recomend it to german movie fans, especially "Heino Ferch" fans.

Movie Review: Never received order
Summary: 3 Stars

I love this movie. I was waiting for 3 weeks for the order and never received it. It sucks!

Movie Review: Flashy and kinetic film but ultimately empty and sterile
Summary: 2 Stars

Due to the success of his second film, the international smash hit, "Run Lola Run", Tom Tykwer's first feature, which had until now only been seen in Europe, has been dusted off and trotted out onto the North American DVD market. Although I'm usually a sucker for Kieslowski-esque ruminations on coincidence vs. fate, I found this film to be emotionally sterile, albeit flashily so, which was also my opinion on the much overrated "Run Lola Run". The film no doubt recalls Altman's "Short Cuts" and P.T. Anderson's "Magnolia" (although the latter was released after "Winter Sleepers"), but that's giving the film too much credit since Tykwer's stories and characters are nowhere near as compelling. Specifically, two of the three interconnected stories did not hold my interest. The only story I had fun watching involved the aimless and destructive relationship between Marco and Rebecca. However, that's only because of the delicious performances from Heino Ferch as the boorish but handsome and sexy lothario, and Floriane Daniels as the needy but beautiful sexpot, and not because of their connections to the other two stories in service of Tykwer's overreaching theme. The blandness of the story involving the father and his comatose daugher is the most problematic since it fails to deliver what is ostensibly the emotional core of the film. But this film does show Tykwer to be a flashy and distinctive filmmaker, qualities that has since made him an international star. The sequence at the end of "Winter Sleepers" is particular impressive although I really don't see how it adds to the story. Tykwer has proven to be a technical wizard, now he's got to prove that he can tell a good story.

Movie Review: Winter Snoozer
Summary: 2 Stars

This 1997 movie from the director of Run Lola Run was recommended to me as "similar to Memento" but the person who recommended it was totally wrong. One character in Winter Sleepers has a supposed problem with short-term memory loss (and it isn't even very serious) but aside from that there is NOTHING connecting the movies. "Winter Sleepers" is more of a Crash/Traffic/Grand Canyon movie with the lives of six or seven strangers in a small German alpine town intersecting in ironic/surprising ways. The frozen landscape, long quiet shots and uber-moody music (Arvo Part, Wim Mertens & Sussan Deyheim/Richard Horowitz) make for an "arthouse" feel even as the plot unfolds as slowly and relentlessly as a glacier.

Floriane Daniel and the cinematography are gorgeous but the viewer notices every second of its 117 minutes.