Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

aaaaaaavril Yes, this film is probably one of the best love stories out there. Where should I start? These types of films that deal with WW2 tend to have similar pessimistic vibes (which I like), but this one has incredibly unique atmosphere towards the end,which DOES give you some sense of sadness BUT at the same time, you feel this hopeness and positivities. I really like the fact that the story is based on the actual story during the time between the two women and I didn't know that until I saw the ending so I wasn't expecting this beautiful story did actually happen.I am not sure if the part at the nursing home where Lilly and IIsa see each other again actually happened or not, but regardless, I appreciate the part in the film and how it ended.Also I liked the last scene that goes back to the past where the ladies are partying . This part gives us the message that nothing stays the same and you must live now at the very moment, this leaves us a really good sense of hope after all.Great work.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Aimée & Jaguar" is a German movie from over 15 years ago about two women, one of them a Jew, having a relationship during the years of World War II. There is actually a frame as the film starts and ends with one of the women being very old many years later and reflecting about the plot I describe above. The film scored a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language movie (where it lost to Almodovar's "Todo sobre mi madre", but came short at the Oscars despite it being Germany's submission. The two lead actresses Köhler and Schrader won Best Actress at the German Film Awards. Director is Max Färberböck and writer Rona Munro and it is probably the most known film for both of them.I'm not too big on Schrader as an actress, but Köhler is fine. The supporting cast includes many known names, at least here in Germany: Detlev Buck, already a successful director at that point, Heike Makatsch, Dorkas Kiefer, Dani Levy, Johanna Wokalek, Rosel Zech, Ulrich Matthes and Desirée Nick. Unfortunately all this does not suffice to make this work as a good film. There were several parts where they included nudity (during a (not so) artsy photo-shooting) and I felt it was just for the sake of it. I did not see any artistic or dramatic value in these. The rest is as you would expect it from one of these uncountable mediocre German war-related movies. Hitler's alleged death is referenced. Flight from the Nazis is included. And lots of other stereotypes where you can say it was done already many times and better usually. The only slightly good thing is that they did not go for a forced happy ending, but let reality make the choice for an unhappy ending. What also certainly did not help was that none of the characters were particularly likable.All in all, I cannot recommend this movie unless you are really really interested in German films set during war time or Lesbian movies. Otherwise, it's a waste of time. The film runs for over two hours and to me it dragged a lot.

Murray Morison This is an exceptional film.The setting is (mainly) Berlin in 1944, with some flash forward to the late 1990's. It is a story about love in a time of war, with the complication that it is lesbian love and 'Jaguar' in the film is a Jewish woman, passing herself off as Aryan and surviving by being a secretary for the editor of a Nazi Newspaper, and keeping close to officers in the military.The acting by the two lead women is quite exceptional, capturing the great contrast between their personalities and revealing a relationship that is entirely believable.The sets, scenes and costumes are authentic and create the era really well; the camera work is excellent. The sense of menace, just somewhere off the screen, is well established and provides one of the real tensions of the film. This is a love story but it is also a story of courage and humanity. Well worth watching.

Dan1863Sickles Juliane Kohler was so stunningly beautiful as Eva Braun in DOWNFALL that I just had to see this movie to see her in action once again.Unfortunately, this movie is no DOWNFALL. Instead of grinding terror and tension, there's only a faint sense of malaise. The destruction of the Nazi state is presented as faintly annoying background noise rather than a cataclysmic event. The real focus of the film is on two women drawn together by lust -- a Jewish bohemian and a placid German housewife. But the two doomed lovers never really seem truly passionate, nor is there any sense of danger and terror all around.Maybe this story would have worked better if it had been set in the Weimar Republic instead of Nazi Germany. Then all the high-living party scenes with the dazzling Jewish heroine showing off her wit and irreverence in public would be more believable. And the placid, oblivious blonde housewife would be easier to forgive for her bland submission.