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Winter Sleepers
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Anne Francois-Pyszora (novel)
Tom Tykwer
Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 22, 2000
DVD: November 7, 2000
Running Time: 124 minutes, Color
Origin: Germany
Language(s): German (with English subtitles)
Summary
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.
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Winter Sleepers has many such breathtaking moments in which sounds and images synergize with an explosive precision.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Angst-ridden, yet graceful, stylish, and optimistic allegory about swerving off one road and finding your way back via another.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Though it was made before "Run Lola Run," feels like the work of a more seasoned heart and mind.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
A movie by a man who adores film and relishes its potential.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Kinetic, sexy and full of meaningful coincidences and intertwined fates.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Characters are manipulated and lives made whole in ways both satisfying and unexpected.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
A tedious, soapy romp about overlapping lives and destiny.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
A cold, emptily stylish exercise -- and one that sorely lacks the speed and vigor that made "Lola" run.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Dennis Lim
Unfolds in a shroud of nonspecific suggestiveness but never emerges from under it.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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.
