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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

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Nadja Uhl

Starring: Nadja Uhl

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Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/22/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

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.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
04/08/07
Jay Antani
Jay Antani
Boxoffice Magazine

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

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
04/08/07
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

Dresen's film has an ingratiating, improvisatory airiness to it which, along with Wolfgang Kohlhaase's deeply humane screenplay, affords much viewer satisfaction.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
04/04/07
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
04/03/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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For a film set during a sweltering season, precious little dramatic heat is brought to bear.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
03/31/07
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

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

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
03/30/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

A very female movie that transcends language and gender.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
03/29/07
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday

You won’t encounter many movies nearly as good this year from anywhere.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
03/28/07
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer

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.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
03/27/07
Michelle Orange
Michelle Orange
Village Voice

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
Les Wright
culturevulture.net

[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
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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