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Liebestraum [Region 2] Reviews:
A great plot idea succumbs to misguided "art"....
2008-01-13 - Yet another film that could have been wonderful but staggers and finally succumbs under the weight of artsy film ambitions. Spoiler: the film's premise of a 30+ year old murder/suicide revisited in a haunting fashion by people connected to it a generation later could have made for a truly compelling story - there are hints of reincarnation and the possibility of changing fate or the danger of reinacting it a second time around.

Characters return, converging to the site of the crime: the Ralston Department Store, now closed and being torn down. Unfortunately, the movie plods along much too slowly. Clues are too slow in coming and too abstractly cloaked in artsy film making. It isn't until the last 20 minutes that things begin to fall into place; The matter of the lone survivor of the crime leaves a problematic element if one accepts the premise of possible reincarnation - maybe transmigration of a soul was intended?

Strangely, the film does pull you to it after you've watched it once and understand what it was trying for. The problem is the lack of action and plodding pace can't hold the attention long enough for most to want to watch it through to the end the first time around.....

Great film
2007-09-11 - I wrote the first Amazon review on the film Liebestraum in 1999 after seeing it first on late night BBC, then buying the director's uncut VHS version. Now 8 years later it is still my all time best movie. Please buy or rent it and see what you think. It is so different in so many ways from any other movie I've seen. For me at least the characters became real people. It is noir, a murder mystery, an interpretation of dreams, but mostly (consistent with the title) a love story. I am fortunate to have loved like Nick and Jane love, and the movie captures the feelings precisely.

A+ Mystery, Photography,Music,Actors
2007-01-19 - Everything about this movie is interesting...I consider it a modern film noir psychological crime mystery with great music (Earl Bostic,for one) and photography of buildings, people, shadow and light. The ending to the mystery is amazing and never suspected by me. Like Vertigo, Sudden Fear, Dead Again, Dead Gorgeous, Seconds, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and others, Liebestraum inspires many viewings for new clues to the mystery.

Liebestraum by Mike Figgis
2005-09-18 - Viewers sensitive to the impact of music,photography, and photogenic actors, may love this film, even be stunned by it. As often with highly 'esthetic' films, however, where the filmmaker expresses his love for music, painting, fetish actor etc..., other essential component(s) suffers. Here the story is predictable (character as fate repeating itself in the next generation formula) and the characters don't come alive--not so that we care about them anyway. True, the (attentive) viewer will discover a surprize plot twist near the end---does anyone care when it comes? There are great issues lurking here: quality of our life (compassion, love, beauty, craftmanship) opposed to the quick buck with no heed to consequences. The male lead architect and his old classmate's wife-photographer who long to self discover by opening their feelings as oposed to demolition boss and mother (Novak) who destroy sooner than allow themselves to feel. But I'm afraid they just 'lurk' instead of come alive, with the consequence that I the spectator was uninvolved and unmoved. Mike Figgis had potentially precious raw material here (including a charismatic leading man): will he someday, like a great filmmaker, turn the dross to gold?

Incorrect information
2004-11-22 - Whoever said that Liebestraum is the name of a song by Schumann is quite incorrect. I am a pianist and I enjoy playing Liebestraum, it is a beautiful piece -- by Franz Liszt. Check your sources next time.