NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Sindre Kaspersen German screenwriter, producer, composer and director Tom Tykwer's second feature film which he co-wrote with author Anne-Francois Pyszora is an adaptation of her novel called "Expenses of Spirit". It was shot on location in Germany and is a Germany production which was produced by German producer Stefan Arndt. It tells the story about a nurse named Laura Kirsch who lives in an inherited house in a German village with her sister named Rebecca. After being reunited with her recent boyfriend named Marco, his new car is stolen and a man named Theo who lives on a farm with his wife and three children up in the mountains has to transport his daughter's beloved horse named Lissy to a veterinarian.Distinctly and engagingly directed by European filmmaker Tom Tykwer, this finely paced fictional tale which is narrated from multiple viewpoints, draws an intimate and moving portrayal of an amorous woman who loves literature and her relationship with her boyfriend who loves movies. While notable for it's naturalistic milieu depictions, sterling cinematography by German cinematographer Frank Griebe, production design by German production designer Uli Hanisch and introduction of it's central characters, this dialog-driven and narrative-driven story where a car accident has a man searching for the person he crashed with depicts several dense studies of character and contains a great score by long time collaborators Tom Tykwer, German composer Reinhold Heil and Australian composer Johnny Klimek.This romantic, coincidental and atmospheric drama from the late 1990s which is set in the Bavarian Alps during a winter and where a single woman receives a new patient at the hospital where she works and befriends a projectionist named René at a place called Sleeper's Bar, is impelled and reinforced by it's cogent narrative structure, subtle character development and continuity, brilliant editing and use of music, style of filmmaking and the fine acting performances by German actress Floriane Daniel, German-French actress Marie Lou-Sellem and German actors Ulrich Matthes, Heino Ferch and Josef Bierbichler. A somewhat surreal, imaginative and multifaceted character piece.

Yelisey Definitely not the worst film from the 90s, but it just seems that the one and primary goal of Tykwer was to fill his effort with as much artsiness and stylish camera-work as possible. Making a cohesive and believable plot was supposedly the last of his intentions. The characters in WS are too dumb and under-developed, delivering some brain-dead lines rarely heard in the dumbest horror flicks (as the one about "maybe it's better to live only 3 years", which was said by a character sitting near the 10-years old girl who had just died). Or another artsy moment of bewitching emptiness, when the blonde stopped on her way to the granny's funeral and started to urinate on the roadside with some grief on her face. Also, all these multiple coincidences in the end didn't make any good to the film.Anyway, the setting is quite beautiful and it lends some charm to this lame story. Hence 2,5/5. At least.

BlueBoy77 This is one of best german movies ever. If you disagree, you might didn´t understand it! Great story with awesome actors, incredible music and a thrilling atmosphere. It´s the first movie of director Tom Tykwer and it´s still his best!!

djbadinfluence Tom Tykwer is a true visionary. So creative in all his films. Likes to play with odd elements (time and the ever so "what if?" factor)This film is the boy meets girl, boy kills little girl driving car, man gets trapped without transportation in said village.......won't get into it here, there are plenty of reviews everywhere, but if you want a truly surrealistic flic, don't read many reviews or you'll truly spoil the splendor of this flick.