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02/09/06
Schultze Gets the Blues (2005)
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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:45
Rotten:18
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Schultze Gets the Blues is a sweet and charming dark comedy.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: After portly German salt miner Schultze (Horst Krause) and his cronies are forced into retirement, the emptiness of their nowhere, smalltown-Germany existence becomes sadly apparent. The only... [More]
Starring: Horst Krause, Karl-Fred Muller, Rosemarie Deibel, Wilhelmine Horschig
Director: Michael Schorr
Reviews for Schultze Gets the Blues
Top CriticA small, unassuming gem.
02/18/05
Top CriticMichael Schorr's endearing little movie gets under your skin much like the music it celebrates, delivering a lilting paean to self-expression and second chances, even while it's tinged with distinctly minor-key grace notes.
03/04/05
Exquisitely cast and gorgeously photographed.
02/11/05
Important and thoughtful themes, which in other hands would likely have been weighty and overbearing, remain drolly deadpan in this accomplished debut film.
02/17/05
He does, but you probably won't, especially from watching this movie.
04/07/05
The story is slow-moving and simple, but Schultze gets the blues is worth it as a peculiar small-scale adventure.
08/02/04
This movie is not played out in Hollywood time. It has it's own rhythm - but it's worth it to slow down to the film's pace and just amble along.
03/15/05
Schultze Gets the Blues can get a little thin, but it never loses its sense of quiet, playful dignity.
03/12/05
Filmed in a leisurely, understated style, this dark comedy is downright entrancing.
02/17/05
Writer-director Michael Schorr has made a sweet movie that takes its time at first but soon takes you over.
03/03/05
A delightful hodgepodge of bland and spicy fixin's and genuine pleasures and surprises that will definitely satisfy the cinematic palates of discriminating audiences.
03/24/05
In his debut film, German writer-director Michael Schorr has crafted a deadpan and droll, yet lyrical, whale-out-of-water tale about defying peer pressure and self-limitations.
03/24/05
Few films pay this close and considerate attention to the physical and emotional heartache of growing old.
01/15/05
What hints at a wacky one-note polka -- staid, retired German miner and accordion hobbyist upends his life upon hearing zydeco -- ends up an intricate, becalmed take on a soul adrift.
02/15/05
Like a lazy summer day in the Big Easy, the movie sneaks up on you.
03/25/05
Schorr's delightfully deadpan comedy debut blew away the German box office, and once you let yourself sink into its gentle rhythms ... you'll see why.
02/17/05
An uncommonly good-natured and simple film, bearing no malice, holding no agenda, desiring no undue attention.
04/04/05
A charming oddity...a gently rib-tickling, genuinely warm-hearted jewel.
03/14/05
A delightful oddball German comedy about a retired mine worker's musical quest.
09/11/05
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