Aimée & Jaguar (2000)

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

German screenwriter and director Max Färberböck's feature film debut which he co-wrote with Scottish screenwriter Rona Munro, is an adaptation of a book from 1994 by Austrian author and journalist Erica Fischer and is inspired by real events in the life of two German women named Charlotte Elisabeth Wust and Felice Rachel Scragenheim. It premiered In competition at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999, was shot on location in Germany and is a German production which was produced by producers Hanno Huth and Günther Rohrbach. It tells the story about a 30-year-old housewife and singer named Lilly who lives in Berlin, Germany with her daughter, three sons and husband whom is fighting for his country in World War II, whom is having an affair with an SS-Officer named Ernst and who through her friend named Ilse meets an audacious woman named Felice. Distinctly and engagingly directed by German filmmaker Max Färberböch, this finely paced and somewhat fictional tale which is narrated by one of the main characters and mostly from the two main characters' viewpoints, draws an increasingly dramatic portrayal of a German wife and mother of four who falls in love with a 21-year-old Jewish resistance fighter who works part-time as a model with her three girlfriends named Klara, Lotte and Ilse and for a newspaper. While notable for its atmospheric and variegated milieu depictions, reverent cinematography by cinematographer Toni Imi, production design by production designer Mathias Schwerbrock, costume design by costume designer Barbara Baum and use of sound, colors and light, this character-driven and narrative-driven story about friendship, love and resistance where romance becomes a way of counteracting the realities and conditions of living in war, depicts three reflective studies of character and contains a great and timely score by composer Johann A.P. Kaczmarek. This historic, at times charmingly humorous, conversational and prominently romantic drama triangle from the late 1990s which is set in the capital city of the Germany in the 1940s and 1990s and where a woman's infatuation with her friend turns into jealously after she introduces her to another woman whom her friend finds so interesting that she decides to write an anonymous love letter to, is impelled and reinforced by its cogent narrative structure, substantial character development, subtle continuity, distinctly natural reactions by Juliane Köhler, scenes between Lilly and Felice, comment by Felice : "Say whatever you like. But don't make me a victim, because it is my goddamn, mediocre little right to be free.", the impressively trembling and noteworthy acting performance by German actress Juliane Köhler and the playful and charming acting performance by German actress Maria Schrader. A densely and heartrendingly biographical love-story.

I have seen this movie and thought it was a wonderful movie, I have never seen anything like it. I was disappointed in the plot description, I feel it was lacking in what the movie was really about. If truth be told the movie was about a group of Lesbian Jews who held on to each other during the time of the Holacast. Although one of the women was a married woman with children could only make her bi-sexual at the most. I believe she only found out she was a lesbian later on in life when she met the love of her life. BTW, I found this movie at a LGBT center where I volunteer, and yes, I am a Lesbian and proud of it. As a piece of history I also find it to be well done. Good movie!

I just finished the movie - towards the end, I became to know it would be one of the best movies I have seen. There is love, life, youth, passion, courage, pain and hatred. What inspired me is that even if Lily and Felice did not spend a lot of time together, and that their love had ups and downs, as long as they were truly in love once, that love lasted for a life time - long after one was gone. Even with the one you loved the most, there was contradiction and conflict. The most important thing is you love each other. When one is dead, part of the other is dead too.I was also very impressed by Felice's strength. When her friend was shot dead in the street, she kept walking away even if she wanted to cry. She brought life to others in the short moments she enjoyed with them. She was like the light in the dark. A person like her would long be remembered. But she was also vulnerable. Somebody said that the vulnerable part of a great person makes the person great. And Felice was like that. She did not feel safe. But she carried on with her belief. She had fear. But she lived her life full. And that is very thought-provoking to me.In general, I like the movie very much. Doesn't it tell something about German as a nation for the fact that a German movie tells the story of Jewish being slaughtered in WWII? I thought that was brave.

The setting is Berlin during the last days of World War II. Aimée and Jaguar are nicknames for two women. Jaguar, or Felice Schragenheim, is played by Maria Schrader, a painfully slender, winsome, enigmatic, and devastatingly beautiful actress whose character rolls through this story like a loose cannon. She is well matched by Aimée, or Lilly Wust, played by Juliane Köhler, attractive but older, by turns lustful and distraught.To survive in difficult times, young Felice poses for nude photos, works in a newspaper office, and gives dance lessons. Lilly is a housewife, mother of four small children, and her husband is at the eastern front. She entertains single men while her children go to the zoo "again?" Felice conceives a passion for Lilly from afar and writes her a romantic letter, signed "Jaguar."I don't want to spoil the story, so I will say no more about it. This is a frankly sexy, exceedingly passionate movie based on a true story. The acting is spectacular, the recreation of time and place is convincing enough, and the music and photography are exemplary. In German with English subtitles. Highest recommendation.In a few scenes, especially during the first hour, I had the impression that I was getting the text of what was being said, but was missing the subtext--i.e., what was really going on. I plan to watch it again before sending it back to Netflix, something I've not done previously (though I came close with High Noon). If you suspect that I conceived a passion for Felice from afar, you'd be right; you might, too, if you see this movie. But see it also because it's simply excellent from beginning to end.Alan Nicoll