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Longing
Directed by
Valeska Grisebach
2006
88m
Drama
,
Romance
6.6
81%
50%
6.2
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A metalworker and volunteer firefighter, who is content with his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, sees his life turn upside down when he falls in love with an attractive waitress from a nearby town.
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Cast of Longing
Andreas Müller
Markus
Ilka Welz
Ella
Anett Dornbusch
Rose
Erika Lemke
Oma
Markus Werner
Nachbarsjunge
Doritha Richter
Mutter
Detlef Baumann
Nachbar
Ilse Lausch
Tante
Harald Kuchenbecker
Onkel
Jan Günzel
Freund#1
Bernd Liske
Freund#2
Bernd Wachsmuth
Freund#3
Hartmut Schliephacke
Bürgermeister / Wehrleiter
Viola Hoffmann
Frau#1
Petra Lemke
Frau#2
Petra Müller
Frau#3
Christa Wachsmuth
Frau#4
Karin Wachsmuth
Frau#5
Valeska Grisebach
Director / Writer
David Groenewold
Producer
Longing Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Chris Chang
The restrained visual style (you could almost call it icy) conveys an all but clinical objectivity-there are numerous segments in the film that could easily pass as documentary.
New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
Longing intrigues because it presents an outwardly decent man falling equally in love with two women but eschews simplistic judgments.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
[Director] Grisebach makes good use of her low-budget and nonprofessional leads. Just as the story is minimalist, so too is the documentary-like film's look: long static takes and tons of close-ups.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
simple and hushed, and that might be the key to the whole dang thing.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
Grisebach's magnificent and moving chamber drama is a roaring mouse that offers ample room for extrapolation though its episodic editing, with Dardenne-style observations so astute that typically inexpressible passions and angst become raw and visible.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Louis Proyect
A German film strongly influenced by the Dardenne brothers. Using nonprofessionals in a naturalistic setting, it tells about the consequences of "careless love".
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich
A Michael Haneke-lite wank job.
WBAI Web Radio
Prairie Miller
Challenges the usual guilt-free male narrative inventions, the misogynistic cliches about the conniving other women who tempt men to stray from their marriages, and conversely the frigid or shrewish wives who drive them into adultery.
european-films.net
Boyd van Hoeij
Sehnsucht is one of those rare films for which the overused axiom "less is more" is totally justified. With her latest feature, Grisebach could give the Dardenne brothers a run for their money.
Variety
Derek Elley
A mightily impressive feature debut by German writer-director Valeska Grisebach.
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