In it's own way, it is every bit as devastating (and excellent) as Pan's Labyrinth. In a more understated way.

I loved it. It is so deliberate and quiet a movie. it's extremely affecting. The first movie I've seen in a very long time that made me care enough about philosophical questions to talk about them.

Also, I am dying to have a conversation with someone who has seen it who is a native speaker because I have a (spoiler) question about the translation.

Oh yeah, I read great things about this. Thanks.

Netflix doesn't have it yet, or I would. *cries*

*puts it on reserve on Netflix*

Looks good. I'll have to check it out one of these days.

It's been playing at the arthouse theater near my apartment for nearly a month, and I still haven't made the effort to go. Maybe this week.

My wife lived in Germany for several years, and had friends in East Berlin. She went over a few times to visit them. Then, she heard, third hand, that these friends could no longer have contact with her, no could she exchange mail with them. She has no idea whether they got into trouble because of her.

We walked to and from this movie. . .She cried a lot of the way home.

I went to see this a couple of weeks ago and was disappointed in it. I found it very predictable and manipulative, tho the acting was quite excellent.

Das Leben der Anderen is one of the best films I've seen in a long, long time. Highly recommended.

I agree with smich. I wish I could discuss my problems with it without spoilers, but I don't think I can. It's manipulative and overly sentimentalized. It hinges on a guy doing something that's against his very makeup as a human being, which could be fine, except the manner in which they sell this total change of heart is horribly manipulative, lachrymose, and unbelievable. I might have bought it in a better film, but this one just didn't convince me at all. Add to it my least favorite brand of misogynist plot development, and approximately 13 endings, and you have a disappointed goatdog.

I can't wait to see this movie. I've been wanting to see it for months. I have in on reserve also.