With a monochrome love story spanning two decades and four countries in post-war Europe, the Polish filmmaker has conjured a dazzling, painful, universal odyssey through the human heart and all its strange compulsions.
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If you’ve ever been stuck hundreds of miles from the love of your life, wondering if it’s really worth all the heartache and phone-checking, Pawel Pawlikowski has made the movie for you.
But it’s the performances (especially Mhe’s spook) and the film’s sharklike forward momentum that make The Lives of Others a compelling look at the psychic toll incurred by a society obsessed with security. The more Wiesler hears, however, the more the eavesdropper develops an empathy for both his prey and the writer’s actor girlfriend (Martina Gedeck). You can pick out the works of others in Von Donnersmarck’s drama – America’s paranoid ’70s thrillers, British espionage flicks and various dour nail-biters featuring overcoated spies coming in from the cold. Assigned to keep tabs on a popular playwright (Sebastian Koch), the officer wiretaps the author’s apartment. Set on the cusp of the Cold War’s thaw-out, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s debut feature revisits an East Germany and the glory days of the Stasi, the German Democratic Republic’s secret police force composed of men like Captain Wiesler (Ulrich Mhe) – dangerously efficient, emotionally detached and able to spot subversives before they’ve uttered a single word.
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