The writer and director, Michael Schorr, is making his first film, but has the confidence and simplicity of someone who has been making films forever.
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03/11/05
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 CriticOne of those movies where nothing whatsoever seems to happen until you look closely, at which point everything happens.
03/11/05
Schorr steers clear of emotion and character development, content to just putter down the river to nowhere.
03/10/05
Charm, culture, and dry humor make it worth a look
03/09/05
as difficult to swallow as a Louisiana clam
03/07/05
Winner of the special prize for directing at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival, Schorr has made an impressive debut.
03/04/05
Highly original, bittersweet comedy.
03/04/05
Michael 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
Writer-director Michael Schorr has made a sweet movie that takes its time at first but soon takes you over.
03/03/05
A small, unassuming gem.
02/18/05
Top CriticThere is so little to him, really, that Schultze's journey from there to here is rather less meaningful than we're supposed to imagine.
02/18/05
Director Michael Shorr's setups are slow and static, with the action unfolding in long or medium shots. In several concert sequences, the dancers annoyingly look right at the camera.
02/18/05
Reminiscent of the films of Aki Kaurismaki and Jim Jarmusch, this wry, very slow German import by Michael Schorr has amusing moments but doesn't possess the droll absurdity needed to make it genuinely compelling.
02/18/05
A sweet and charming treat.
02/18/05
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
Defiantly slow-paced, Schultze gets the blues embraces a neglected subject: the wanderlust of the retiree.
02/17/05
Simply too tedious and stretched out to be amusing.
02/17/05
Top CriticSchultze Gets the Blues rediscovers the world through the astonished eyes of a retired German salt miner on a musical pilgrimage to the United States.
02/17/05
Top CriticA rough-cut wonder, a movie that evolves from Teutonic inertia into a deadpan polka, a bouquet of edelweiss tossed into the melting pot.
02/17/05
Filmed in a leisurely, understated style, this dark comedy is downright entrancing.
02/17/05
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