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Requiem
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Requiem reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 82 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.2 out of 10
based on 13 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Sandra Hüller, Burghart Klaußner, Imogen Kogge, Anna Blomeier, Nicholas Reinke, Jens Harzer, Walter Schmidinger, and Friederike Adolph

Inspired by the same events that were previously dramatized in "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," this film portrays a first-year university student whose bout with epilepsy leads to a tragic exorcism.


GENRE(S): Drama  |  Foreign  |  Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Bernd Lange  
DIRECTED BY: Hans-Christian Schmid  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 6, 2007 
Theatrical: October 20, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Germany 
LANGUAGE(S): German (with English subtitles) 

Silver Berlin Bear (Best Actress - Hüller), 2006 Berlin International Film Festival

What The Critics Said

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100
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Requiem, the new film from German director Hans-Christian Schmid, is absolutely astonishing. See it if you possibly can.
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91
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Requiem is drawn from an incident that was also the basis for last year's demon-seed hit, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose."
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90
Variety Eddie Cockrell
Stunningly played story of faith vs. family.
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88
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
An exorcism movie for the rest of us, the gripping German drama Requiem contains not a single special effect. It doesn't need one. It has terrific actors fully invested in a casual-seeming, docudramatic brand of storytelling, notably Sandra Hueller.
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88
TV Guide Ken Fox
Bogumil Godfrejow's raw cinematography and Huller's poignant, close-to-the-bone performance transform what might have been a morbid curiosity into an entirely enthralling, quietly terrifying experience.
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80
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
In its subtlety, complexity and dexterity, Requiem is a notably original work.
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80
Empire Helen O'Hara
A tragic tale of teen rebellion and misplaced faith, this is a sober and sobering account of a young girl's untimely end, made enthralling by great performances and restrained direction.
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80
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Requiem is a moving study of a tortured young woman more at peace with medieval ritual than with modern medicine.
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80
Village Voice Jim Ridley
Sandra Hüller, a young German stage actress making a harrowing feature debut, invests Michaela's terrified, possibly schizophrenic outbursts with unholy conviction.
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80
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
While "Exorcism" focused on a murder-trial battle between the priest and a prosecutor, Schmid's film beautifully details the behavior, events and socio-religious pressures that lead to the decision to perform such an extreme ritual.
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75
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Though its heroine's mysterious seizures and blackouts are terrifying in the way they undermine her quest for self-determination, Requiem isn't a horror movie so much as a thwarted coming-of-age story, like "Carrie" without the bloody reckoning.
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75
New York Post V.A. Musetto
Anybody who's ever seen a movie about exorcism knows that, in cases like this, the first thing to do is call 1-800-PRIEST, which the family does.
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50
Chicago Reader Martin Rubin
The nonsensationalistic results are also somewhat ho-hum--and oddly less convincing than Friedkin's lurid mess, let alone the elegant satanism sagas of Tourneur and Polanski.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Josh W gave it a10:
Caught this one at the Seattle International Film Festival and was blown away. Sandra Huller's subdued performance is wonderful. Not to mention the best use of Deep Purple in a film sountrack.

max s. gave it a10:
Brilliant actors, especially Sandra Hüller´s performance is incredible. GREAT movie !! very very intense !

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