Review of the movie "Handsome"

Genre : comedy, melodrama
Director : Til Schweiger
Actors : Til Schweiger, Nora Tshirner, Matthias Schweighofer
Country : Germany
Year : 2008
Budget : € 4,500,000
Duration : 115 minutes.

The journalist and the notorious playboy did not get along with the law and now he needs to spend 300 hours helping the children in the kindergarten. There he meets his old acquaintance, who was tortured at school and begins his reincarnation as a family man and a lover of children and, of course, a love story.

In the world there is a whole unreached layer of culture - German films. No, we do not mean those tapes where in the end everyone gets up, gets dressed and leaves, and others - everyone gets up there, dresses and periodically marries each other. These, and it is these tapes that bring to the masses a wonderful sense of peace and implant faith in humanity as a whole. Their plot is often uncomplicated and optimistic: he and she, they have some past and the future looms on the horizon. From the third minute it is clear what kind of future ... But to watch such a film is still nice: the brains should also rest.

Here and this time: the Germans turned out a great film "about love" - ​​funny, not pressing, charming and with Til Schweiger in the title role. Which, by the way, not only played the role of playboy and correcting cynic, he also helped write the script, and put the film, and found money for him. Well, and the children of their young people also attached to the great art of the synema - everyone found roles in the dad's film. But the German family contract is not for you a Russian mezhdusoboychik (to offer the main roles to the wife and children only because "... if not me, then who?").

The Germans, they are diligent and responsible people, that's why they do everything on conscience - even if the native father smiles from the director's chair. Therefore, for the film Schweiger - a huge and purely female "thank you"! This, of course, is not "barefoot on the pavement" and certainly not "Knockin 'on Heaven", but not an alternative-fecal comedy, which was abundant in the stormy career of the German sex symbol.

On the main female role in Till was smart enough not to invite a blond German model. Nora Chirner is not particularly known outside of Germany, she is more theatrical and serial actress, whose popularity in recent years in the homeland is growing by leaps and bounds. Her sharp angular movements, "graceful clumsiness" - this, according to Schweiger himself, captured him so much that Anna was written completely under Chirner. Actually, because, maybe, Norah is natural and does not look beautiful at all, which unsuccessfully disguises herself as a ugly girl.

The film is recommended for viewing by anyone who does not have enough exposure for many-day soap operas, but for the happiness of someone else's look very much like. To appreciate your own.

PS Yes, all boxing fans can see the cameo with Wladimir Klitschko. No, he will not beat Schweiger.


Natalia Rudenko