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Summary: This could have been a great film...
Review: I really mean it, but the characters in this film were too dark and foreboding. This film is really depressing and the characters really let their emotions flare up. Everyone treats each other terribly until they realize it. Skip this one for something else.
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Summary: Best German film for a long time
Review: I saw "Beyond Silence" at least three times in the theater when it was released in Germany. German film makers normally make comedies and that's the only thing they are good in. Up til now. Caroline Link shows that there is more than comedy. She made a fantastic drama about this girl living with her deaf parents and becoming a woman, who wants to get out into the real world. It is clear that there are many problems to be solved. Music plays a great role in this film. "Beyond Silence" was nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film but did not win. Still it is a great German work, one of the few.
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Summary: video cut
Review: I saw this movie when it first came out in the theaters in Germany - and agin last night on video. The movie is excellent but I was very disappointed that a very beautiful scene was cut out for the video release. It shows a bee crawling on Lara's breast with the comment of her boyfriend that bees do not hear but sense vibrations. Why in the world was this scene cut out? I hope if Caroline Link's next excellent movie (Nowhere in Africa) is released in the US everything is left the way it was intended.
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Summary: Great representation
Review: i was a deaf education major in college and can safely say that this is the best representation i have ever seen of the deaf community. it is an excellent movie and i HIGHLY recommend it.
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Summary: ALL DEAF AND HEARING PEOPLE SHOULD SEE THIS MOVIE
Review: Iam a child of one deaf parent and I have just started to learm ASL due to my family. I belive that this movie should be played in every calss room to teach hearing people to go beyound the language and learn a language that millions speak and that is very beutiful.
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Summary: I have been waiting so long...
Review: If I had any musical talent, this film could easily be my life. The story is about a young hearing girl, Lara, growing up with two deaf parents. Lara often uses her parent's disability to her advantage, sometimes not relaying all the information in a conversation when she is asked to interpret, or outright lying in these scenarios. Her aunt, Dad's sister, presents her with a clarinet and develops a tight bond with Lara. Their relationship is very different than that of Lara and her parents simply due to the communication factor. Lara wishes her aunt was her mother. The conflict in the film arises from the issues Lara's father has with her love for music. He is tormented by family memories of his sister being adored for her musical talent, while he is hauled off to the other room to be locked up like an animal. This is an amazing film. As a hearing child of deaf parents, it comes closest to my own experiences and frustrations with deaf and hearing culture internal and external to the family unit. It is easily in my top-five films of all time.
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Summary: "Beyond Silence" celebrates growing up loved and loving.
Review: Lara's answer to her deaf father's anxious query: "Have I lost you?" is "I've loved you since the day I was born". The innocence and power of that simple answer brought tears to my eyes. This wonderful movie takes the viewer on a noncynical, nonneurotic journey of family love challenged, and at the same time deeply enriched by disability. Beyond Silence reminds us that our families both shelter and constrain, and that we must dream and love and work our way into new relationships that will shelter and support us without trapping us. I loved the lyrical weave of words translated into sign language. Watching Beyond Silence reminded me of seeing beautiful ensemble dancers accompanied by the haunting notes of an instrument rarely seen in movies--the clarinet. The innocent, captivating beauty of the young Lara captured my imagination as well as my heart. I loved this movie and cannot wait to share it with everyone I know. It is a movie that celebrates the human heart and spirit. Worth Five stars and more. In the same league as What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and Dominick and Eugene. Worth its weight in gold.
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Summary: "Beyond Silence" celebrates growing up loved and loving.
Review: Lara's answer to her deaf father's anxious query: "Have I lost you?" is "I've loved you since the day I was born". The innocence and power of that simple answer brought tears to my eyes. This wonderful movie takes the viewer on a noncynical, nonneurotic journey of family love challenged, and at the same time deeply enriched by disability. Beyond Silence reminds us that our families both shelter and constrain, and that we must dream and love and work our way into new relationships that will shelter and support us without trapping us. I loved the lyrical weave of words translated into sign language. Watching Beyond Silence reminded me of seeing beautiful ensemble dancers accompanied by the haunting notes of an instrument rarely seen in movies--the clarinet. The innocent, captivating beauty of the young Lara captured my imagination as well as my heart. I loved this movie and cannot wait to share it with everyone I know. It is a movie that celebrates the human heart and spirit. Worth Five stars and more. In the same league as What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and Dominick and Eugene. Worth its weight in gold.
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Summary: wholesome enjoyment and good example of family problems
Review: Many R-rated films have diturbing scenes and vulgar language mixed in with a good plot. This has neither. There is one scene with her boyfriend where you want to send the children out of the room,but the rest is very good. It shows family struggles that are familiar to us all. Pround Grandparents, flighty aunt, parents who dont understand the childs interest in music. It has a slow pace but the characters develop realistically. This movie also deals with the not so common problem, the relationships between deaf and hearing people. I would recommend this film to anyone who doesnt get upset by the one scene.
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Summary: Almost perfect!!!!
Review: This is almost the perfect family film. The mild premarital sexual content is not appropriate and takes away from an otherwise excellent film. What a great storyline! The interaction between the hearing and deaf worlds was very interesting. You will enjoy the characters and their stories.
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