Refreshingly and sympathetically about women deciding to live in Switzerland as émigré, exile, immigrant, or refugee from Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists.
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11/01/08
Fraulein (2008)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:9
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.5/10
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Fraulein is Andrea Staka's artfully crafted story of the friendship among three women from Yugoslavia. Reza left Belgrade more than 30 years ago to seek a new life in Zurich. Now in her fifties,... [More]
Starring: Mirjana Karanovic, Marija Skarieiae, Ljubica Joviae
Director: Andrea Staka
Reviews for Fraulein
1 - 13 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
The film dwells on different ways of coming to terms with a traumatic past, and it's clearly a subject dear to the heart of director Andrea Staka, who grew up in Switzerland but is of Bosnian and Croatian heritage.
10/24/08
Murky drama about three displaced immigrant women with deep emotional scars ...
10/23/08
Easier to admire than actually enjoy.
09/19/08
Presents immigrant lives with significantly more empathy than detail.
09/19/08
Top CriticIt's a fine movie--spare and moving--and, in its way, also kind of daring.
09/19/08
Stylized with a recurring misty focus, the film's economically captured detail shots (gestures, expressions, caught moments) convey genuine sensitivity without the expected weepiness.
09/17/08
It seems disingenuous to call Fraulein a film when it's more like a glossy fashion magazine layout.
09/14/08
A tense yet lyrical psychological drama about the brutal effects of extreme historical shifts, war and cultural displacement without a single frame depicting historical cataclysm, yet where the past is always present even in life's most private moments.
09/10/08
A tense yet lyrical psychological drama about the brutal effects of extreme historical shifts, war and cultural displacement without a single frame depicting historical cataclysm, yet where the past is always present even in life's most private moments.
09/10/08
As a character study, this feels as real as a knife cut, slicing to the heart of shattered dreams, long-forgotten hopes and aspirations which may go unfulfilled.
06/13/08
Sensitively drawn and lensed with special attention to characterization and tone, Andrea Staka's Golden Leopard winner Fraulein introduces a strong new voice in Swiss cinema.
06/06/08
Top CriticWith outstanding performances and a keen eye for detail, Fraulein continues to expand the cinematic exploration of the heritage of the Balkan Wars from a female point of view after Grbavica.
02/01/07
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