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Today's film is built around what happens to a small family and friends when the former East German Republic went belly up.

Goodbye, Lenin (2003)

A young man sees it all happen just as he is becoming a man, out of puberty and into, well that depends on what is happening around him. Or not.

This is a pretty good film if a bit long. Two hours is a long time to sustain a story like this. It is not that it is formulaic but it does not plow much new ground. A faster pace would help. Too much dotting the i's and crossing the t's.

I enjoyed it. It is a feast for character actors.

And yes, Lenin does leave, his statue, airborne as we and all the people who lived behind the wall watch. Sometimes change is a bitch.

A 3 out of Netflix%.

Labels: films