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Aimee & Jaguar

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Erica Fischer (novel)
Max Färberböck
Rona Munro
Directed by: Max Färberböck
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 11, 2000
DVD: October 30, 2001
Running Time: 126 minutes, Color
Origin: Germany
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek, and Heike Makatsch
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. (Zeitgeist Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
A standout.
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
That Aimée & Jaguar manages so well in triple duty as a wartime melodrama with a lesbian twist is remarkable.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson
A guilty pleasure and one of the best films of the year.
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Färberböck's sensual adaptation is a matter of fact embrace of the unconventional and dangerous during a terrible time.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
First-time feature film director Max Farberbock has given a terrific visual style, resonance, sense of hope and power to the material.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
It's a first love story that goes beyond many simplistic notions as to why people fall for one another. If it weren't true, no one would believe it.
Film.com Peter Brunette
Its series of quiet but moving realizations of the utter ubiquity of the Nazi horror in every single aspect of life, even something as hidden as a sexual sub-culture, is powerful indeed.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
One of the year's best imports and one of the very few queer movies that transcends its sexual orientation.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
There's no denying the raw emotional power of this heart-rending story.
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
This is the kind of story that has to be true; as fiction, it would not be believable.
Read Full Review >New York Post Hannah Brown
Entertaining, extravagantly emotional.
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Färberböck has directed the story with a canny blend of liveliness and taste.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
When Aimee and Jaguar gets on one of its frequent rolls, it can evoke memories of Bertolucci or even De Sica.
San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
A lustrously shot, well-acted and immensely moving romantic drama.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
With key scenes so vivid they barely feel scripted, this is more than a same-sex success, it's a most affecting, most sensual on-screen love affair, period.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Leslie Camhi
Relies on the hefty talents of its two leading ladies.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dave Kehr
There is surprisingly little emotional amplitude in the film.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
LisaJo N. gave it a10:
As a lesbian and as someone who lived in Germany as a child after the second world war, I found the emotional and national resonance of the film to be breathtaking. Everthing rings so true and at the same time so wonderously happy and so tragic. I cannot recommend a film more hightly.
Isabel C. gave it a 10:
I'm in love with both the movie and specially Juliane Köhler. What else can i say?
Natalie R. gave it a 9:
I absolutely LOVED this film; so much so that I had to buy the video. The acting is marvelous, the true story is riviting and the love between the two women exquisite. I am captivated!
