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Winter Sleepers
WinStar Cinema


7.2

based on 16 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not rated

Starring Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem, Floraine Daniel, and Heino Ferch

An unsual, visually-striking melodrama from the director of "Run Lola Run" about two couples who share an Alpine Villa in rural German ski village.

GENRE(S):	Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Anne Francois-Pyszora (novel) Tom Tykwer
DIRECTED BY:	Tom Tykwer
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: November 7, 2000 Video: November 7, 2000 Theatrical: March 22, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	124 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	Germany
LANGUAGE(S):	German (with English subtitles)

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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Offers a riveting depiction of the classic collision of fate and character, with geography in this instance playing a crucial role.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Winter Sleepers has many such breathtaking moments in which sounds and images synergize with an explosive precision.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Angst-ridden, yet graceful, stylish, and optimistic allegory about swerving off one road and finding your way back via another.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Though it was made before "Run Lola Run," feels like the work of a more seasoned heart and mind.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

A movie by a man who adores film and relishes its potential.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

While it lacks the experimental razzle-dazzle of "Lola," the film is a similarly confident and fetching look at love, coincidence, tragedy and fate among the young, the bored and the beautiful.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Kinetic, sexy and full of meaningful coincidences and intertwined fates.

Film.com Tom Keogh

As he did in "Run Lola Run," he has clearly patented an original combination of cinematic eye and ear candy and a profound, irresistible fascination for the role of chance in this world.

TV Guide Ken Fox

From its ominous opening to its spectacular climactic stunt, the hypnotic precursor to director Tom Tykwer's "Run Lola Run" is a quieter but creepier affair.

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

Technically, the movie occasionally rises to become awe-inspiring, and while sometimes you can smell the acting (especially from Matthes), the performances are often soulful.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Characters are manipulated and lives made whole in ways both satisfying and unexpected.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

A tedious, soapy romp about overlapping lives and destiny.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

I can't yet decide whether the film works or not, but it certainly held me for its full two hours.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's slow and pretentious, full of craggy Bavarian snowscapes and dour "mystical" portents that seem to circle back to nothing but themselves.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

A cold, emptily stylish exercise -- and one that sorely lacks the speed and vigor that made "Lola" run.

Village Voice Dennis Lim

Unfolds in a shroud of nonspecific suggestiveness but never emerges from under it.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

ge t. gave it a9:
Great. I love the song that appears in the movie.

Claud gave it an 8:
A clever film with beautiful images. Shows, like Lola Rennt, that control is an illusion, and that our lives are contingent upon the strangest coincidences and chains of events.

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Winter Sleepers WinStar Cinema

Winter Sleepers
WinStar Cinema