Michael

2011 [GERMAN]

Drama / Thriller

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 80% · 40 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 5317 5.3K

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Plot summary

Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.

Top cast

Gisela Salcher as Christa
Victor Tremmel as Schwager
Tiby as The chimpanzee
Roland Trnka as Passerby

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rioplaydrum 8 / 10

Brilliant and heartbreaking

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Reviewed by reeceindie 8 / 10

Outstanding and original piece of work.

This film is an incredible, original and totally unexpected piece of work. Given the subject matter audiences may assume that this would be pure exploitation or self-consciously 'dark' or 'edgy' but the film is full of ambiguity and subtlety and the director does an amazing job of keeping distant and matter-of-fact about the characters without leering or over-dramatics. Recently there have been a number of films which attempt (sometimes desperately) to be disturbing or provocative with degrees of explicitness , the originality of Michael is it's lack of explicitness or exploitation (if it was any other form of relationship it would be rated PG) which gives it a unique and unsettling tone. The film is full of little details and memorable moments which linger and is closed by an unexpected ending which moves from tense to calm then back to tense, all with a subtlety and pace alien to Hollywood.

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