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i must have seen a different film!!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

"Aimée & Jaguar" is a German movie from over 15 years ago about two women, one of them a Jew, having a relationship during the years of World War II. There is actually a frame as the film starts and ends with one of the women being very old many years later and reflecting about the plot I describe above. The film scored a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language movie (where it lost to Almodovar's "Todo sobre mi madre", but came short at the Oscars despite it being Germany's submission. The two lead actresses Köhler and Schrader won Best Actress at the German Film Awards. Director is Max Färberböck and writer Rona Munro and it is probably the most known film for both of them.I'm not too big on Schrader as an actress, but Köhler is fine. The supporting cast includes many known names, at least here in Germany: Detlev Buck, already a successful director at that point, Heike Makatsch, Dorkas Kiefer, Dani Levy, Johanna Wokalek, Rosel Zech, Ulrich Matthes and Desirée Nick. Unfortunately all this does not suffice to make this work as a good film. There were several parts where they included nudity (during a (not so) artsy photo-shooting) and I felt it was just for the sake of it. I did not see any artistic or dramatic value in these. The rest is as you would expect it from one of these uncountable mediocre German war-related movies. Hitler's alleged death is referenced. Flight from the Nazis is included. And lots of other stereotypes where you can say it was done already many times and better usually. The only slightly good thing is that they did not go for a forced happy ending, but let reality make the choice for an unhappy ending. What also certainly did not help was that none of the characters were particularly likable.All in all, I cannot recommend this movie unless you are really really interested in German films set during war time or Lesbian movies. Otherwise, it's a waste of time. The film runs for over two hours and to me it dragged a lot.

This film took home a basket full of German awards and a Golden Globe and GLAAD nomination.A beautiful, and true, story of a Jewish lesbian (Felice/Jaguar (Maria Schrader) who is attracted to an officer's wife (Lilly/Aimee (Juliane Kohler - Downfall, Adam Resurrected, A Woman in Berlin).Of course, things don't go smoothly at first, as Lilly is not aware that Felice and her friends are lesbians. She slaps her the first time they kiss.Lilly finally accepts the fact that she loves Felice and there is a beautiful and transformative love scene.Both Schrader and Kohler were amazing. An outstanding film of love amidst the most terrible times.

I watched it tonight and I would certainly count it a loss if I missed watching it. It is simply brilliant! The acting, the story, the passion. I just could not stop crying, and this was over and over again. We knew the lovers were doomed but the courage and the love they felt for each other made us wish, no matter how unrealistic, that some miracle would happen, that somehow, they could be saved. Of course, this was not going to be so. Still, Felice was just bewitching, not because of her being so sexy, but because she was so much alive. Wow! I bought the DVD. I am not going to lend it to anyone, just in case they never return it to me. Wow!

Juliane Kohler was so stunningly beautiful as Eva Braun in DOWNFALL that I just had to see this movie to see her in action once again.Unfortunately, this movie is no DOWNFALL. Instead of grinding terror and tension, there's only a faint sense of malaise. The destruction of the Nazi state is presented as faintly annoying background noise rather than a cataclysmic event. The real focus of the film is on two women drawn together by lust -- a Jewish bohemian and a placid German housewife. But the two doomed lovers never really seem truly passionate, nor is there any sense of danger and terror all around.Maybe this story would have worked better if it had been set in the Weimar Republic instead of Nazi Germany. Then all the high-living party scenes with the dazzling Jewish heroine showing off her wit and irreverence in public would be more believable. And the placid, oblivious blonde housewife would be easier to forgive for her bland submission.