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Summer in Berlin

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Summer in Berlin (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 13 Fresh: 8  Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.4/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Nadja Uhl

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08/22/07
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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4/5

At once natural and designed, funny and sad, Dresen's story approximates the capriciousness of life itself, and that may be the highest praise any work of art could ask for.

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04/08/07
Jay Antani
Boxoffice Magazine
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3.5/5

What we seem to have in Andreas Schmidt is a Buster Keaton/Marty Feldman in Teutonic skin.

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04/08/07
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals
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Dresen's film has an ingratiating, improvisatory airiness to it which, along with Wolfgang Kohlhaase's deeply humane screenplay, affords much viewer satisfaction.

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04/04/07
David Noh
Film Journal International
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3.5/4

A close friendship between two women is tested over the course of a single sultry Berlin summer in this bittersweet and wonderfully wry film from German director Andreas Dresen.

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04/03/07
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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2.5/5

Summer in Berlin is a pointedly unglamorous slice of life that could be set in any urban neighborhood where real estate prices haven't gone through the roof.

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04/02/07
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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3/6

For a film set during a sweltering season, precious little dramatic heat is brought to bear.

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03/31/07
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York
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2/4

The movie tends to wander between story lines and characters without any real sense of purpose.

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03/30/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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3-4

A very female movie that transcends language and gender.

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03/29/07
John Anderson
Newsday
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You won’t encounter many movies nearly as good this year from anywhere.

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03/28/07
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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Summer in Berlin is most affecting as a character study of two women in their late thirties, at the precise moment in their lives when, with middle age on the march, the fritterings and posturings of youth offer respite.

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03/27/07
Michelle Orange
Village Voice
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In Summer in Berlin, director Andreas Dresen presents the portrait of a friendship between two women, Nike (Nadja Uhl) and Katrin Engel (Inka Friedrich). In the German tradition of the Kammerspielfilm, this is a closely and lovingly observed study in psyc

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03/26/07
Les Wright
culturevulture.net
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[The] characters careen toward credible crises, yet the pic's numerous virtues just don't add up to a full meal.

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09/29/05
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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