Some may find the story line a bit predictable, but the artistic way in which we are told the story-part in flashback, part in real time, not in a direct linear fashion-more than makes up for that. Even better if you have a bit of an ear for German dialects, as the peculiarities of Swiss German come across repeatedly and are quite entertaining. If you can live with subtitles, this is a very rewarding movie to watch. It's a typically anti-Hollywood movie: with depth, sensitivity, creativity, and a strong sense of historical verisimilitude, all artfully and skillfully shot and on a minimal budget. We see how this first relationship set the stage for his later attempts to find love as a mature young man. A small but I think important subplot was the relationship between Kari and his mother, who nursed him to health as an infant and loved him dearly, a love reciprocated by Kari. We can read all their internal emotions in their facial expressions, glances, etc. It's a story about someone who tries to overcome the bad hand that fate has dealt him, is not entirely successful, and yet in later years can look back on that episode with mingled bittersweet feelings, without anger towards his fellow human beings but as a very well-adjusted person who is dearly loved by his circle of intimates. But the strength of this movie is in its story and the three lead actors who do a fantastic job portraying the two main characters (because we see Kari as both a young man and an older man). The individual vignettes of life in the rural and then urban settings are quite charming, though not always pleasant or pretty. ![]() The story is set around the late 1800s in Switzerland, and is presented in German. (Sean Young) - a secretary at Tyrells headquarters who ends up being a unique and highly advanced. The main story revolved around his attempts to court a beautiful young girl who takes an interest in him, but her family of course is not quite as accepting of his defects and simple upbringing. Given Amazons history of releasing episodes for high-profile shows like The Boys (2019-). We see him at birth, as a young boy, as a 20-something year old young man, and then again as a mature older man. We are given the story in little bits, not in chronological order, but after a while one starts to piece things together readily enough. This is a small, simple movie about a boy, Kari, born with a cleft lip and his life of trying to deal with this defect and achieve happiness in spite of it. Kalyan Chakravarthy Balthazar Sahel Basile Durieux Brittany Piacente Carlos Quijada Cem Olcer Charles Christoforou David Uystpruyst Dominique Zenon Effandi Mohamed Emanuele Goffredo Francois Cote-Paquet Genevieve Trottier Gretchen Bangs Guillaume Dureux Irshad Patel Jean Bennamias Juan Carlos Huerta Juan Sebastian Perez Julien Barbault Keith Acheson Kindra McCall Lianne Forbes Marc-Antoine Bressand Marion Eloy Martin Pélissier Natalianne Boucher Nicolas Bouf Pierre-Yves Marin Renaud Louvet Sébastien Nebout Sotiris Georghiou Souvik Dey Thibault Plancq Tomas Langevin-Côté William Banti Yan Caspar Hirschbuehl Baptiste Lebouc Carlos E.Happened to catch this on a plane ride, and I'm so glad I did. ![]() Hoover Bernd Angerer Huseyin Caner Jeremy Robert Simon Leclair Richard Clegg Sabrina Gagnon Martin Chabannes Chris Hardman Kim Menaster Annie Normandin Félix Pirritano Troy Summersett Julien Cimino Wesley Chandler Jakub Pazera Paul Lambert Eduardo Bivar Vikas Chandel Scott Mitchell Pascal Clement Daniel Thron Pierre Masseron Pierre Rousseau William Perreault Jacob Yorke Romane Landrieux Berenice Antoine Julien Mercier Virender Dass Wai Sun Cheng Anand V. ![]() Murphy Sébastien Moreau Viktor Müller Ryan Tudhope Adam O'Brien-Locke John Nelson Eric Bates Olivier Cauwet Chad Nixon Richard R. Rohit Agarwal Pierre Buffin Ankur Mishra Michelle Eisenreich Katie Hamberger Karen M.
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