REVIEW: The Lives Of Others

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is the 2007 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film. Although I was unable to see the movie before the Oscars, one of the perks of working on a college campus is the screening of all sorts of films on which are often hard to see in the theaters.

Recently I was able to see The Lives of Others and was blown away by this powerful film.

The movie is 138 minutes long and starts off slowly but builds to a shattering climax--and then continues for another ten minutes!

The writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is able to present an incredibly detailed and horrifyingly realistic portrayal of the claustrophobic and paranoid way of living in Eastern Germany in the 1980s.


Get it on DVD or Netflix if you can you won't regret it.

GRADE: A.