Synopsis
When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer comedy but it’s not. This film is an intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.
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Cast
- Inka FriedrichKatrin Engel
- Nadja UhlNike
- Andreas SchmidtRonald
- Vincent RedetzkiMax
- Stephanie SchönfeldTina
- Christel PetersHelene
- Kurt RadekeOskar
- Hannes StelzerHerr Neumann
- Barbara BachmannBarbara Bachmann ..
- Traute HoessChefin Agentur
Recommendations
- 60
Village Voice
German director Andreas Dresen has made an oddly buoyant little film about loneliness: Part Sex in der City, part Dogme doldrums, Summer in Berlin is most affecting as a character study of two women in their late thirties. - 60
The New York Times
The low-key realism is so meticulously maintained that Summer in Berlin feels somewhat trivial. There is nothing larger here than meets the eye. It is "Sex and the City" on a stringent budget with fewer characters. - 50
Chicago Reader
Nothing much is original in this soggy tale of two German women whose friendship persists despite adversity and their own bad choices. - 50
Variety
The modest splash made by Andreas Dresen's Dogme-styled 2002 drama "Grill Point" raised expectations his projects since haven't quite met, including the new Summer in Berlin. - 50
New York Post
The result is entertaining but hardly memorable. - 50
New York Daily News
The movie tends to wander between story lines and characters without any real sense of purpose.
