Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Hell_Kitten Spoilers do not reveal major plot points or affect the integrity of the film. We Are the Night (German: Wir sind die Nacht) is a 2010 German vampire horror film directed by Dennis Gansel. German language with English subtitles. Also available in English without subtitles. I'm a lover of all things horror and have recently warmed to German films which made this combo a must see for me. The film packs some powerful punches as it explores concepts like youth, beauty, depression, self-harm, suicide, aging and the consequences of immortality along with Valerie Solanas' idea of an all-female society. These themes are wrapped so snugly into the film that it's revelations are practically seamless. At the beginning of the film we are introduced to lovely but lonely Lena (artfully played by Karoline Herfurth). She's a tough teen whose life is overshadowed by the cold despair, hopelessness and pointlessness which often accompanies abject poverty. Her life is dominated by negative interactions with male authority figures in the police, her parole officer and those she pickpockets on the streets. Her only reprieve from this desolation seems to come from escapism into the German underground. It is in one of these undergrounds where she meets Louise, the head of a 3 person pack of attractive female vampires. One is Charlotte, a breathtakingly beautiful former silent movie star who seems distant and removed from the world around her. The other is Nora, a cute and perky. young, hip raver girl with enough energy your head will spin just watching her as she parties her way from one scene to the next. Louise herself is a rather attractive and regal looking woman whose maker was killed by sunlight. Louise becomes consumed with the idea that somewhere out there her lost love and sole mate will be reincarnated and she will recognize her by looking deeply into her eyes. Incidentally, this plays nicely off the concept that eyes are the windows of the sole. But how can one know for certain it's their lost love with only a glance? You can't and thus Louise turns each girl who might be her lost love but inevitably finds they are not "the one" and so continues her search. Even though there's an inevitability to each new partner not quite meeting Louse's expectations she does not discard them upon this revelation. Choosing instead to collect and keep them like living photos of whichever century she steals them from. They remain at her side as immortal cohorts in crime.Early on in the movie, Louise shares the premise to their way of life with her freshly initiated young whelp, Lena. All of the male vampires were murdered by the females for being "too noisy, too greedy and too stupid."Upon first glance that might make the viewer draw the conclusion that this film is about misandry and those evil feminists plotting to take over the world. On closer observation though it proceeds to carry a completely different message, via multiple scenes in which the female vampires make any number of vacuous decisions, equal to, if not greater than their so-called "inferior" male counterparts. The takeaway of this film is a two-fold message; Men and women are equal in their more redemptive traits like selflessness, kindness and compassion. Scattered throughout the movie are small breadcrumbs alluding to this such as a rather poignant moment in which Nora is intentionally cruel when a sweet young bellhop who likes her, offers her a flower at the steps of their hotel. She tells him she'll have him fired if he dares ever speak to her again because she knows if she returns his affections it will lead to his death by her hands. Women are also equally capable of committing monumental acts of evil and cruelty such as when Louise, taking on role of mother and lover, dumps the vulnerable and ailing Lena at the feet of a human trafficker who intends to beat and rape her into "submission."It's the sum of these small scenes which add up to the breathtakingly big revelation that the female vampires inevitable outcomes are due to their own shortcomings of greed, carelessness and stupidity..the very (all too human) traits Louise earlier subscribed to as the reason for the downfall of their male counterparts. The ending, in particular, actually refutes any claims to be made for misandry both in the choices Lena makes for herself and the fate of the other vampires who have been subscribing to such misandry.Other interesting points:The original script for this film was written before "Twilight" but shelved for other projects until after "Twilight" came out. Due to the similarities between the original script and Twilight, Gansel had Jan Berger rewrite the script, now under the title "Wir sind die Nacht." It's loosely based around Carmilla and sanitizes out most scenes involving a romance between Lena and a police officer in favor of a love story between women.Heiko Maile was inspired by the score of the film "The Dark Knight" and how it combined electronic music with orchestra and electric guitar. Maile used "Au Clair De La Lune" as Charlotte's theme. Peppered throughout the film are other outstanding musical scores. Among them, IAMX's "Nightlife" and "Wir sind die Nacht" by Covenant. Well worth a purchase of the album for these two songs alone. Torsten Breuer's cinematography, Shot for shot, make this is a gorgeous film and a feast for the eyes. In a brilliant maneuver, Breuer and Gansel manage to make the vampires nocturnal world of night, wildly colorful and lush while simultaneously making daytime life seem cold, bleak and colorless.I highly recommend joining these fun loving and endearing homicidal psychopaths for a bit as they send you on a dizzying romp of action, gore and genuine drama.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Wir sind die Nacht" or "We Are the Night" is a film written and directed by Dennis Gansel starring some of Germany's most talented actors currently. Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich and Anna Fischer play a trio of vampires with Karoline Herfurth playing their newest member and Max Riemelt being the love interest to Herfurth's character. Gansel worked with Herfurth in the past already and she and Riemelt appeared in his film "Mädchen, Mädchen!", a lighter teenage comedy movie. 3th time already that Riemelt appeared in a Gansel film and a 5th time happened not long after "Wir sind die Nacht". As Gansel is currently attempting to make an impact in Hollywood with upcoming films starring Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Alba, Jason Statham and Tommy Lee Jones, we will see how that goes. Good luck to him. His most famous film so far is probably "Die Welle"."Wir sind die Nacht" scored German Film Award nominations for the music (maybe my favorite part of the film and the editing. The central character of the film is a loner girl who gets turned into a vampire and all this while she gets closer to a cop investigating the deaths committed by the vampire trio. I thought all 3 female vampires are pretty interesting for what they are. One of them suicidal, fairly distant and not too obvious with her feelings, another the exact opposite and pretty much a best friend to the central character and seemingly a normal girl, but still ruthless as we saw in the swimming pool scene and finally the leader of the gang, a tall blonde with authority, who has grown emotionally cold towards humans. Her comment about the smell of death in the retirement tells us a lot about her. Hoss' character has been a vampire for so long that humans mean nothing to her anymore except means for survival. As she plays the mother role to Herfurth's character, she does not seem so evil initially and of course she manages to impress her new protégé being the tough independent woman that she is, at least for a while, and make her feel home. I quite liked the transformation scene in the bathtub.However, things go south quickly. Watching one of her new "friends" lose her love interest, she realizes it all sucks pretty much, even if Hoss' character tries all to let them think otherwise. There is some strangely funny scenes in the film, like the "smoking not allowed" reference at the restaurant. What I was not too fond of in this film was the love story with the cop. First of all, I am yet to see a Riemelt performance where he truly blows me away, but I also just found all the vampire-related stuff more interesting. The 4 female characters were also more fascinating to watch than the kind of stereotypical cop how they act and how they are all pretty different. I did like the open ending though. I admit it would have been pretty difficult to include a non-open ending and make it convincing. This way here everybody can make up his mind for themselves how the two continue their relationship and if it works out.If this is the German, darker approach to the Twilight franchise, then they mostly did a good job. I would not say it is better than Twilight at its best, but all in all I enjoyed what I saw during these 100 minutes. And of course, Nina Hoss has excellent screen presence as always and Herfurth is not far behind. Recommended.

trashgang This is a misleading film. This isn't a horror at all, it's more a drama taking place in a vampire world. There isn't really any biting going on or an amount of red stuff flowing. And that's why so many vampire lovers will tear this flick down. Because it's low on everything. Sure, they all look sexy especially Charlotte (Jennifer Ulrich) but somehow it doesn't work. look, when they are at an inside swimming pool and ask the boys to join. You can see what is coming and yes one girl take of her top to reveal her tits toward the guys but not for the viewers. You are left with a hunger. And there's a lot of dancing going on in the nightlife. I can take it once but always going to that place were in fact nothing is happening...except for the music itself. There's one scene were the vamps go wandering around and are driving their cars on Nightlife from IAMX. Being a fan of IAMX that was a nice surprise and you can hear the whole song. But be honest, it's a bit like Twilight, a bit like Romeo and Juliet. The forbidden love between a human and a vampire. Jeaulousy between the vampires, lesbian love between Louis and Charlotte, you could see the fight coming between them. Maybe I'm missing something that I didn't see, what is worth watching is the fight between both of them for the effects but by then it's too late. It's was a long night...Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 4/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

SilthDraeth I am writing this mainly because a couple reviews on here start making the "Twilight" comparison. *below will contain some spoilers* The only thing it has in common with Twilight would be vampires, but so does "Let the Right One In", Nightwatch, Bram Stoker's Dracula, etc, there are tons of movies with vampires in them, lest we make a comparison of them all? This movie definitely has adult themes, you even see a locker room with naked men and their penises, sadly, for a lesbian vampire film, that is the only true nudity.I had no problem following the story of a young girl, living in the drudge of society, not quite sure where she belongs. This is her story more than anything else. The acting by the main actress is superb, as is the trio of vampires. The main male lead pulls off a moonstruck in love young man just fine, wanting to play the hero for his heroin in distress.Superb movie. I rated it a nine. This, like "Let the Right One In" (watch the original, "Let Me In" the American remake is trash compared to the original), is primarily a movie about self discovery that happens to include vampires, than it is a movie about vampires.So give it a go, and stop comparing it to Twilight. I wish I could have wrote this review without having to bring up Twilight just to state how different it is.