Movie #143 "Aimee and Jaguar" just popped up on the queue today and it looked interesting so I viewed it. I was watching a Ryan Reynolds' movie earlier, but it just stopped and net flix said to pick something else, so I did. This was very powerful, and my favorite subject matter: Holocaust. The love scenes are pretty emotional and graphic, the acting is wonderful, and it is beautifully filmed. The frame (older ladies looking back at the story) is a good ploy to use ---- quite poignant for me. Makes me want to check out the book. I esp. loved the scenes where a whole room full of women is still having a good time in the face of WWII and the Nazis just outside the door. It was a refreshing pov.
Average rating: 3.611
I gave it 4
Aimee and Jaguar
(1998) NR
Based on the memoirs of Lilly Wust, this is the story of two women who fall in love in 1943 Berlin: Lilly (Juliane Köhler), the wife of a Nazi officer, and Felice (Maria Schrader), a Jewish journalist. When the two women begin their affair, they rechristen themselves Aimée and Jaguar to help avoid detection. They then set up housekeeping and try to tune out the war, but the Gestapo is never far behind.
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