Films I Watched This Week — May 19–25, 2025
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Goodbye Lenin! Is a coming of age story about a widow completely devoted to the Socialist East German State. A heart attack leaves her in a coma, and when she awakens eight months later, the Berlin Wall has fallen, and it's a whole new world. To protect her from the shock, her teenage son hatches a plan to keep her in the dark. German writer-director Wolfgang Becker creates an intriguing political drama of a family traumatized by politics while also incorporating satirical comedy expressing the great lengths people will go to keep families together. Because, in the end, when all is said and done, personal ideologies can melt away when it comes to relationships of the heart.
A Real Pain (2024)
Live Flesh (1997)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
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