Artivels Undescribable Perfection

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Manuel Groesch The premise and plot of this movie is remarkable, thought-provoking and funny in a very strange way. The story is developed in almost Amélie-like fashion with quirky characters and plot development but it doesn't quite go all the way and thus stays in a strange limbo. I got a few laughs out of the quirkiness but there was more potential. The budget must have been extremely slim. A lot of the backgrounds and sets seem more like theatre than film (that may have been intentional, but according to me takes away from the movie's effectiveness) The story itself is thought-provoking but also a bit predictable. Sonia tries to research the nazi past of her town but gets rejected at every turn. For this part of the plot the quirkiness and strange parts of the plot are sometimes very much in the way of the impact the story, mostly its injustice and phoniness of the characters, may have had. The movie has a great potential for being fun, quirky, thought-provoking and "important" but as none of the elements is perfected and due to the distracting style and sets it doesn't quite reach its impact. That is why I think the story would deserve a remake.

The_Film_Cricket 'The Nasty Girl' tells an interesting story that I did a bit of reading about sometime before this movie came along. I had learn that a young German girl named Anja Rosmos had done some probing and found that her little town had had some major ties with Nazi Germany.The local politicians were outraged and warned her not to do anymore snooping around but she went digging anyway. She came to find that a former residence of Hitler resided right there in Passau. The townspeople were outraged and Rosmos' life became a nightmare. She was threatened, beaten, her husband left and her reputation was destroyed.The movie tells the same story but changes the names and makes the story lighthearted. The girl's name in the film is Sonja Rosenberger and she lives in Bavaria. Somehow these changes made the film feel artificial. I would much rather see either a straightforward biography or a documentary on this subject but not this approach in which I learned basically nothing.The movie is so light and nice about a rather dark subject. Watching Sonja I felt that I was watching a staged, sanitized version Anja's story by someone who knows little or nothing about this subject. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture so obviously someone found something in it to like but for me, I felt gypped

kenjha A young German woman investigates her town's involvement during the Third Reich. The presentation is quirky, with Stolze at times stepping out of character to directly address the audience. There's also the occasional use of theatrical backgrounds, as well as having the living room furniture seemingly floating in the streets. It's clever and amusing, but seems out of place with the theme of the movie. After the light-hearted start, things turn serious as Stolze goes about trying to dig up information on her town's history. Not only is the transition jarring, but the film bogs down. Stolze gives a lively performance, convincingly aging from adolescence to adulthood.

Lee Eisenberg Sonja (Lena Stolze) seems like any ordinary person. That is, until she has to research her town's history for a project. In the process, she discovers that her town was heavily involved in the Third Reich. Then, everyone in town not only turns against her, but tries in every possible way to silence her.Much like another West German film ("The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum"), "The Nasty Girl" shows a woman used as a scapegoat for something that was society's fault (it makes sense for German movies to deal with that; it's exactly what the Third Reich was all about). Another one of Germany's solid masterpieces.Watching this movie, I couldn't help but wonder what sorts of secrets any place, anywhere on Earth, carries.