Question to the German cinema buffs on here. What's the name of the film I describe below, that I'm struggling to remember/
Unless my memory is failing me, the central character - I expect the eponymous character {Edit: not in fact eponymous, the title turns out to be an adjectival noun describing the lead character. Further edit: and that's just the German language original title. For the English market it was given a totally different, four word, title, kind of referring to her situation and her odyssey.] - is a female writer from West Germany, whose works pre-1989 have been pro-communist, pro-GDR, and have found a ready market in the GDR, where she has been idolised. On the collapse of the GDR, her market and her cultural standing evaporate, and it turns out her books were a bit crap after all. She goes on a bit of an Odyssey around Germany, meeting a gigolo, then her fellow-alcoholic ex-husband, then her aging parents in Bavaria, her life kind of falling apart as her delusions are shattered. Don't want to say any more, to avoid spoilers, except I will say (spoiler) that it doesn't end well. The whole film is very bleak and downbeat, not many laughs or strong positive characters.
Watched it last summer on holiday, with my student daughter, on the recommendation, IIRC, of an old uni friend of mine (or possibly on wingco's recommendation). We didn't like it much. Anyone help me out with the title? [Edit - a FB friend has now named it for me, but I'll leave this as a quiz q.]
Unless my memory is failing me, the central character - I expect the eponymous character {Edit: not in fact eponymous, the title turns out to be an adjectival noun describing the lead character. Further edit: and that's just the German language original title. For the English market it was given a totally different, four word, title, kind of referring to her situation and her odyssey.] - is a female writer from West Germany, whose works pre-1989 have been pro-communist, pro-GDR, and have found a ready market in the GDR, where she has been idolised. On the collapse of the GDR, her market and her cultural standing evaporate, and it turns out her books were a bit crap after all. She goes on a bit of an Odyssey around Germany, meeting a gigolo, then her fellow-alcoholic ex-husband, then her aging parents in Bavaria, her life kind of falling apart as her delusions are shattered. Don't want to say any more, to avoid spoilers, except I will say (spoiler) that it doesn't end well. The whole film is very bleak and downbeat, not many laughs or strong positive characters.
Watched it last summer on holiday, with my student daughter, on the recommendation, IIRC, of an old uni friend of mine (or possibly on wingco's recommendation). We didn't like it much. Anyone help me out with the title? [Edit - a FB friend has now named it for me, but I'll leave this as a quiz q.]
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