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Grimm Love
- Director: Martin Weisz
- Writer: T.S. Faull
- Producer: Cordula Betz
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Yet another version of the Armin Meiwes story...
Total fictionalised fact, a pseudo-psychological photographic analysis of a thoroughly distasteful predilection...and, it's bollocks.
This is filmed with a distinctive and stylistic eye but with a particularly banal script - it fails entirely.
As a German produced feature, it has all the hallmarks necessary for an American audience, in that it leads you by the hand, no thinking necessary - do all Germans speak English? No.
It dwells on the epidermis rather than going under the skin - it is an incredible story but it is most definitely NOT an incredible movie.
There is no need for emotion here - it's what they WANTED.
Please note: voice-overs rarely work. It certainly doesn't work here.
A lame, lazy film.
Watch the brilliant Cannibal (by Marian Dora) instead.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen's and the thousands of people like him.
Cast & Characters
Keri Russell as Katie Armstrong;
Thomas Kretschmann as Oliver Hartwin;
Thomas Huber as Simon Grombeck;
Rainier Meissner as Young Oliver;
Angelika Bartsch as Viktoria;
Alexander Martschewski as Rudy;
Nils Dommning as Karl;
Marcus Lucas as Felix;
Pascal Andres as Young Simon;
Helga Bellinghausen as Simon's Mom;
Sigrid Burkholder as Mourner 1;
Tatjana Clasing as Hanna;
Stefan Gebelhoff as Simon's Dad;
Jonas Gruber as Rainer;
Bojan Heyn as Bully