Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 116 minuten
Country:
Australia
Directed by: Cate Shortland
Stars: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt and Matthias Habich
IMDb score:
6,3 (29.278)
Releasedate: 20 April 2017
Berlin Syndrome plot
While on holiday in Berlin, Clare, an Australian photojournalist, meets Andi, a charismatic local man. Almost immediately there is an attraction between them, after which a passionate night follows. But what initially seems to be the beginning of romance takes a sinister turn when Clare wakes up the next day to find that Andi has gone to work and has locked her in his apartment. In addition, Andi has no intention of ever letting her go.
Actors and actresses
Clare Havel
Andi Werner
Erich Werner
Franka Hummels
Jana
Peter
Elodie Zadikan
Aron Hurwitz
Billy Dharma
Silke
Reviews & comments
Alathir
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- 2143 messages
- 1647 votes
I found The Berlin Syndrome especially well acted and realistically presented. There may not be much going on, but I haven't been bored anywhere since. Plot twists are good. Didn't really bother me at all. You wouldn't expect it from that guy either. Teresa Palmer does indeed give the eye something, but she can certainly be there. Good ending too. So I can't really say anything bad about this movie and it's mostly a single location movie, well done.
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Black Math
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- 5430 messages
- 1753 votes
Reasonable. A movie with the same theme as 3096 Days, Girl in the Basement and Room. It's all predictable of course she'll escape, but solid. Visuals are nice, acting is okay, plot-wise nothing crazy happens. Good to get through the evening, but no more than that. 2.5*.
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Shadowed
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- 11557 messages
- 6803 votes
Faint.
Berlin Syndrome is the film that hopes to make you uncomfortable by making all things as realistic as possible. However, director Cate Shortland hardly succeeds. If a thriller can mainly get the interest from the fact that the German background sometimes looks nice, something is going wrong somewhere.
Nevertheless, I can understand that some viewers may experience this as an exciting film. I myself found the relationship between Palmer and Riemelt too disturbing to experience this tension myself. By the way, Riemelt does a nice job, but Palmer's somewhat theatrical acting performance ensures that the relationship never feels like something "real". Palmer cannot be blamed for that, because the script that Clare receives does not really cooperate. The character is followed in a small space, but if the development of that same character is experienced as extremely boring, Berlin Syndrome quickly becomes a long sitting.
Nice moments left and right. Very occasionally I liked approaching the film purely from a psychological perspective, but that is made difficult by the little empathy I could show for Palmer's character. The slow, bald directing doesn't really help either. The sad tone is justifiable, but that ends when you as a director don't really do anything with it other than make it all feel sad. I won't say the movie is a disappointment, just not a positive surprise either.
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