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In this gripping story of intrigue, espionage and identity, a former East German spy living under a fake identity sees her life and family threatened. Stars Liv Ullmann.
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85%- Reviews Counted: 13
- Fresh: 11
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 6.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: "Two Lives" is an absorbing, well-acted, moderately suspenseful mystery, although its time line of events is fuzzy to the point of impenetrability.
Fresh: Seven decades later, the creative well has somehow not yet run dry on the ripple effects of Nazi Germany's offenses, though writer-director Georg Maas's slick and sulky second feature is not another dime-a-dozen Holocaust tragedy.
Fresh: Two Lives unfolds in a slow boil of rage at the government that allowed all this emotional destruction. But Maas treats Katrine with compassion, as a victim of forces more damaging than her own ravenous hunger for love and family.
Rotten: The personal drama is "I can't tell any more lies!" obvious, the international intrigue is lukewarm, and the big payoff, which should be a shocker, is so poorly staged as to be laughable.
Customer Reviews
Top Notch Mystery Drama
4.5 stars. A twisted mystery plot of tragic Nazi and Stasi machinations that beset women and children of Norway.
Excellent drama, acting and direction. Tugs at your emotions as you hope, somehow, the espionage does not end in tragedy.
Very powerful and gritty emotions of love, motherhood, yearning and searching.
Great Thriller
This film reminds me of the film The Lives of Others, it is just as good. You will enjoy it.
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- Genre: Thriller
- Released: 2014
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