Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Claudio Carvalho This movie pictures the life of five characters connect by a car accident in a snowing road, provoked by the projectionist Rene (Ulrich Matthes) and the broken farmer Theo (Josef Bierbichler). Rene is a kind of melancholic intellectual, who has amnesia problem and takes picture of the most important events of his life to recall them. One night he drinks too much and steals the car of the ski trainer Marco (Heino Ferch) just for fun. Due to a lack of attention of Theo on the road, there is a dreadful accident, when his young daughter is seriously hurt in the head. She is sent to a hospital without the necessary resources for such a case, but she is unable to be transferred to another suitable place due to the bad weather and her conditions. The nurse in charge of the young girl is Laura (Marie-Lou Sellen), an anorexic woman full of problems and inferiority complex due to her body, who lives in a house inherited from her grandmother with her friend Rebecca (the delicious and sexy Floriane Daniel). Rebecca works in translation, usually wears red colored clothes and has a kind of engagement (indeed their relationship is limited to sex) with Marco. He is a typical unfaithful male man, sexually chasing the women trained by him and being an empty person. The story is a kind of metaphor with the cycle of life, through the lives of five persons with different attitudes and behavior, who are linked by an incident, having death and birth but with life going on. The direction and the performance of the cast are excellent and the photography is wonderful. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): `Winter Sleepers – Inverno Quente' (`Winter Sleepers – Hot Winter')

Exiled_Archangel I decided to buy the DVD of Winterschläfer after watching the beautiful "Lola Rennt" and "Der Krieger Und Die Kaiserin" by Tom Tykwer, and it seems like it was a good decision. I can't say Winterschläfer is an excellent movie, nor can I say it was mediocre or bad. The reason being, after watching the movie, I still don't know what I think about it.. Odd but true. It's really unique, not the least bit like any other movie, including other Tom Tykwer movies. Yet another soul-crusher by Tykwer. The story is not exactly believable, but I sure did feel like I was inside the story, which usually means the film is successful. It captured me big time, and it'll most likely do the same to you or any other viewer. And you'll either love it or hate it; or start looking around stupidly with a wide open mouth just like me. I have to say the acting is EXCELLENT though. I kept telling myself what a jerk Marco is for being mean to a sweetheart like Rebecca. Only after seeing the credits, I remembered it was just a movie. Well, wrong, this is not just a movie. This is a unique experience. Although the story is extreme, and sort of unbelievable, the movie gives the viewer a bloody strong feeling that the story is taken from real life incidents. Recommended..

BlueBoy77 This is one of best german movies ever. If you disagree, you might didn´t understand it! Great story with awesome actors, incredible music and a thrilling atmosphere. It´s the first movie of director Tom Tykwer and it´s still his best!!

djbadinfluence Tom Tykwer is a true visionary. So creative in all his films. Likes to play with odd elements (time and the ever so "what if?" factor)This film is the boy meets girl, boy kills little girl driving car, man gets trapped without transportation in said village.......won't get into it here, there are plenty of reviews everywhere, but if you want a truly surrealistic flic, don't read many reviews or you'll truly spoil the splendor of this flick.