Reviewer
Zahir |
Build-up 5 |
Kissing 4 |
Love scenes 5 |
Movie overall
4 |
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Based on a true story, this award-winning film is about the passionate love affair in 1940s Berlin between a seemingly "normal" Nazi housewife and a bohemian Jewess who belongs to the underground. The title comes from their nicknames.
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Actresses:
Maria Schrader & Juliane Köhler
There's a New Year's party, in which Juliane's army husband doesn't know all of his wife's new friends. But they all seem fun-loving, and he enjoys dancing with them.
An unhappy Juliane retreats to a dark room, followed by Maria. The housewife feels envious of her new friends, while Maria is clearly fighting the temptation to touch her. Julianne asks "Why do you mean so much to me?" Maria doesn't answer.
Juliane goes to get something and spots her husband making out with one of the party guests. Amused, she goes and tells Maria--who can resist no longer. She grabs Juliane and kisses her. Juliane freaks, pulling away and slapping her, demanding "What kind of games are you playing?"
Later that night, Juliane simply walks out into the street and sees Maria smoking a cigarette. She walks up to her new friend and suddenly hugs her. "Do you want to see me?" asks Maria, to which Julianne nodds, hope and surprise on her face.
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Actresses:
Maria Schrader & Juliane Köhler
Alone in Juliane's apartment, the two of them make love for the first time. Juliane is clearly nervous, standing in her slip while Maria, kneeling to the floor, hugs her knees. Then Juliane turns to take off her slip, but hesitates. Maria puts arms around her waist and hugs her.
Next they are in bed. Juliane still wears her slip while Maria, on top, is naked. She pulls up the edge, kissing Juliane's belly--who has begun to hyperventilate. Maria soothes her, asking if she should stop (the answer is "No"). Then Juliane reaches out and holds her close, saying its too much, she can't stop trembling. So Maria strokes her face, and says so is she. They recline and kiss--very slowly. Lip to lip with open mouths, then reaching out with their tongues, and relaxing into a passionate embrace.
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Actresses:
Maria Schrader & Juliane Köhler
Essentially, Juliane is playing hostess to a bit of a party with Maria and her lesbian friends. Later that night, Juliane approaches her lover, who's sleeping nude. She pulls back the covers, revealing a naked back, and gazes at her worshipfully. Then she slips her hand across one buttock, and then between her legs. Juliane kisses Maria's back frantically, asking "Would you die for me?"
Maria stops her and says "No."
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A remarkably nuanced and romantic story, about two vivid women meeting and falling in love under circumstances no one should have to endure. Sadly, only one of them survives to tell their story, but as is said in the film "I don't want forever--I want now." Telling a grand love story without singind into sentimentality is not easy, but the actors and filmmakers manage it. Imagine all the fear, delerious joy and anger, the wild emotions and ecstasies and horrors of an all-consuming love. Now put it during wartime in a violent tyrany, and between two women. That's "Aimee and Jaguar."
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