Manfred and Hilke live a live perfectly complied with each other in West Berlin. They managed to elude from the bourgeois conformity, which they loath. But when Hilke finds out about her pregnancy she estranges from her partner. Trying to keep her former life as it was, she desperately looks all over the city to get an abortion.
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Germany
Wir wiederholen den Film am 12.2. um 18 Uhr!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Historical significance, no doubt, just 4 years after the Berlin Wall was built. Because of the sentimentality of the memory, it must generate even better feelings in German viewers whose parents or grandparents, or themselves, lived through that post-war boom of the West German welfare state, with exemptions for recent marriages and mainly for those with 3 children - as can be heard on TV while the playful Hilke and her friendly man, Manfred, engage in pillow fights and get angry and happy in the bathtub and bedroom. Manfred is dedicated to real estate sales and this suits the plot perfectly because while Manfred - playing the game of capitalism of the FRG, Bundesrepublik Deutschland - and as a good…
I remember thinking that it was good but not fantastic but I really need to rewatch this to give a real opinion.
Most of restored movies presented at Cannes classics this year were kind of disappointing. Not this one!
It (Es) is, to this day, topical story about a young couple filmed in a very fun new wave style of filmmaking. Really entertaining and heartbreaking, beautifully restored precursor to Neuer Deutscher Film. Very glad I’ve got to see it.
男女二元刻板拉出的對照，製圖師和房屋仲介，內與外，墮胎議題到現在仍在爭論，整體來說就是個父權社會。西德戰後地景，經濟復甦與新政，時代和人物沒有很貼合，也許是另種意義上的貌合神離。
Maybe one of my all time favorites, so simple yet so captivating.
