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The Good German (2006)

Drama | 105 minutes
2,77 317 votes

Genre: Drama / Thriller

Duration: 105 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Stars: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Tobey Maguire

IMDb score: 6,0 (26.873)

Releasedate: 8 December 2006

The Good German plot

"If war is Hell, then what comes after?"

An American journalist is sent to cover a conference on the future of Germany after World War II. He takes the opportunity to search for a lost love and then becomes involved in a murder case.

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Onderhond

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Sorry miss.

Soderbergh is certainly not the first to try to imitate classical cinema, in my opinion he succeeds just a little too well here.

It will never work out between me and 4:3, but those scene transitions and the camera work could only moderately please me. The black and white work is still nice at times, but otherwise I found it visually very substandard. On the other hand, it is true that Soderbergh approaches the old style very closely. The same is actually true for the soundtrack.

I thought Clooney was a miscast (a bit too smooth), Maguire is especially very bad. Was glad that his role was ultimately only fairly limited. Furthermore, I am certainly not a big Blanchett fan, but she was just about the only one who fulfilled her role a bit properly.

The story lacks tension and intrigue, Soderbergh never manages to find the right tone with his actors and the film goes on for at least fifteen minutes too long. Was expecting something more from it.

1.5*

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Insignificance

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Back to the 1940s in almost everything. Not only in black and white, it was also recorded as then, often in a studio. Of course that doesn't look as nice as The Third Man, also post war, but I could still do something with it. The advantage is that you can mix in something like archive images in this way and with current techniques without it looking out of place.

Furthermore, it does not disappoint. Maguire's reputation doesn't bother me that much. In addition, just like the film, he gets off the starting blocks quite briskly. Anachronistic, yes, but it quickly loses the risk of an overly dull imitation. A bit at least, because in the way in which Soderbergh lets his cast act, that is firmly imprisoned. A little looser would have been nice.

The story can go on. A murder case that turns out to be hiding more and more dirty things. When Clooney is once not put together, he runs behind the facts, which are then explained with some subtlety. For example, the film is almost always on the way, although it is a bit too cold to experience the unveiling as a sledgehammer.

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Roger Thornhill

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A beautiful attempt at a neo-noir, including the black and white photography, close-ups with shadows, secrets from the past, melodramatic music, the appropriate image format and the background projection with historical images, including all the mess that immediately reminds me traced back to A foreign affair, Germania anno zero, The third man and Witness for the prosecution. Toby Maguire makes wonderful use of his friendly baby face to portray an obnoxious hustler who you know after two seconds is not going to end well, although I didn't think it would be this early in the movie. happen, and Clooney and Blanchett play properly. Perhaps a little too long to keep the tension constantly and therefore less effective than I thought after watching for about half an hour.

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