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Agnes and His Brothers

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Foreign

Written by: Oskar Roehler

Directed by: Oskar Roehler

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 9, 2006
DVD: December 19, 2006

Running Time: 115 minutes, Color

Origin: Germany

Language(s): German (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Martin Weiss, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Katja Riemann, Tom Schilling, Susan Anbeh, Vadim Glowna, and Margit Carstensen

Agnes and his brothers have little in common, except an eccentric old father, relationship problems that are totally screwing up their lives, and a distinct possibility those two things are connected. (First Run Features)

What The Critics Said

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80

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Roehler mixes cheap sex humor, existential darkness, buffoonish satire and profound tenderness in almost classic proportions. Maybe this is too uneven to be a masterpiece, but it's somewhere close.

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63

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Roehler aims scattershot barbs at so many targets, from political hypocrisy to suburban entitlement, that he often misses. But whenever he takes the time to line up his toxic arrows, usually with the help of a compellingly squirmy Bleibtreu, he hits the bull's-eye.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

It's a slick, ambitious movie that doesn't always nail all the many moods and themes it's after.

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50

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

This scathing study of middle-class angst plays like a cross between Buñuel and Almodovar, but the satire never achieves liftoff despite the actors' best efforts.

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50

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Dysfunctional families don't come much more messed up than the one in Agnes and His Brothers, a comic drama from Germany.

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50

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The results isn't especially engaging, despite a quietly charismatic performance by Weiss, a relative newcomer who holds his own against far more experienced actors.

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50

Variety Jay Weissberg

A Teutonic version of "American Beauty" with added dysfunctionality.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Writer-director Oskar Roehler spends all his energy on cataloging ''outrageous'' behavior, and none on giving the transgressions any meaning.

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42

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

Oskar Roehler's serio-comedy Agnes And His Brothers tries to make some incisive points about the damage wrought by society's sexual hang-ups, but though Roehler throws three different characters at the subject, only one halfway sticks.

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40

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Aside from appreciating the movie's sturdy performances, my reaction to this satire of the middle-class, all-German family swung from revulsion to mystification.

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20

Village Voice Dennis Lim

The title's pointedly incorrect pronoun is typical of the film's obtuse childishness.

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What Our Users Said

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