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  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Corinth Films
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Corinth Films
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary Young Vincent Gellner is a determined man of many words, more often than not a man misunderstood. Suffering with Tourette syndrome his life is a constant wrestle with the idea of acceptance and his own uncontrollable and unique freedom of self-expression. When his mother passes away before she could gaze at the sea one last time he becom...

Directed By: Ralf Huettner

Written By: Florian David Fitz

  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Corinth Films
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Corinth Films
  • 1 h 36 m

Vincent Wants to Sea

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Young Vincent Gellner is a determined man of many words, more often than not a man misunderstood. Suffering with Tourette syndrome his life is a constant wrestle with the idea of acceptance and his own uncontrollable and unique freedom of self-expression. When his mother passes away before she could gaze at the sea one last time he becom...

Directed By: Ralf Huettner

Written By: Florian David Fitz

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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50% Mixed
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63
Jul 14, 2011
This is a bright, broad, silly, harmless movie whose sweetness is a means to an end.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 21, 2011
Complacent with road-movie tropes, director Ralf Huettner and screenwriter Florian David Fitz's Vincent Wants to Sea is likeable insofar as it's familiar.
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60
Jun 24, 2011
The picture's quiet performances and occasionally surprising moments take it just far enough off the beaten path to make it more than a transparently formulaic feel-good story.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 30, 2011
What's missing is any of the real-life messiness that might have lifted this material from its creatively tic-ridden confines.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 24, 2011
Trapped inside the German film Vincent Wants to Sea there's an affecting father-son drama, an amusing road movie, a quirky romantic comedy and a non-patronizing take on mental illness. What we actually get - a homogenized movie-of-the-week set against the Alps and punctuated by anodyne English-language pop songs - brought out the cynic in me.
By John P. McCarthy FULL REVIEW
20
Jun 27, 2011
The principal characters can be reduced to a handful of tics, and the entire story line is immaculately devoid of incidental detail. It's like sitting in a padded cell for about 90 minutes.
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Jun 21, 2011
If Vincent Wants to Sea proves nothing else, it's that a moronically quirky take on mental illness is no more palatable when it's subtitled.
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Production Company Olga Film
Release Date Jun 24, 2011
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

German Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Bavarian Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Jupiter Award
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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