100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The movie is woven with care and complexity, again confirming von Trotta's place as one of the world's greatest female filmmakers.
Rosenstrasse (Rosenstraße)
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- Germany,
- Netherlands
- 2003
- · 136m
Director
Margarethe von Trotta
Cast
Katja Riemann,
Maria Schrader,
Doris Schade,
Jutta Lampe,
Svea Lohde,
Jürgen Vogel
Genre
Drama,
History
After Hannah’s father dies, she grows curious about her mother’s past. She decides to visit Berlin to investigate. She meets Lena Fisher, the woman who helped her mother escape from Germany, and learns about the detainment of Jewish men who were married to Aryan women in 1943. How will the past affect Hannah’s future?
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What are critics saying?
75
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
It is at once inspiring and troubling.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Ruthe Stein
Worth seeing.
75
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Director Margarethe von Trotta nearly buries the drama of the protest itself within the awkwardly sentimental framework of a contemporary New Yorker's quest to learn the truth of her widowed German mother's grief and history. But while the film concentrates on Lena, eloquently portrayed by Katja Riemann, the movie earns your empathy.
70
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
A modest yet moving fact-based drama.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Most important is the film's consistent unexpectedness. Rosenstrasse captures well not only the varying states of mind and levels of awareness in Germany during World War II but also the era's lingering effect upon its survivors.
70
Variety by David Stratton
A sober, unsensationalized enactment of a Holocaust incident. Von Trotta keeps sentimentality at bay and, as a result, the film isn't as emotionally wrenching as it might have been.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
At heart a love story, Rosenstrasse benefits from strong, sympathetic performances from two actresses who play the same character at different ages.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Jean Oppenheimer
At heart a love story, Rosenstrasse benefits from strong, sympathetic performances from two actresses who play the same character at different ages.
63
Miami Herald by Connie Ogle
Shares an important slice of German history that is largely unknown.
60
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
As a treatment of yet another unexplored corner of the Nazi nightmare, the film is revelatory; needless to say it's also heartbreaking.
50
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
Mawkish and manipulative, the film isn't worthy of its widely praised German director.
50
The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias
Von Trotta lingers for so long on the backstory and framing story that the movie's heart never comes to the fore.
40
L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson
Von Trotta and co-writer Pamela Katz can't resist cutting, again and again, to Hannah and her airless musings on the story's meaning. These interludes stop the movie in its tracks and, counter no doubt to von Trotta's intentions, do a disservice to the Rosenstrasse women themselves, who shouldn't have to fight for screen time.
30
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
There's something unsettling when fiction exploits this history to such puny, self-interested ends.
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