The Nasty Girl

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03/30/2014 Although it's a tough topic, its sto?y-telling style is enjoyable. See more 03/06/2014 A young woman investigates her Bavarian village and it's people's involvement during the Second World War and the townsfolk turn on her. It's a little too art house for my personal taste but a rather unique experience. I probably wouldn't watch it again though. See more 09/26/2013 An oddly cheeky and eccentric glance at the most sobering subject of the last century: the assent of ordinary German people to the monstrosity of Nazism. The film is a stylistic and tonal mess, a jarring blend of Brecht, Woody Allen and Michael Haneke. Some scenes play out choppy, funny Amelie-style back story. Others have a curiously stagey, spotlit feel with back-projected black and white backgrounds. Extreme close-ups are suddenly employed, along with the odd moment of magic realism. There are moments of slapstick. The rest of the film is reasonably realistic, with the more appropriate tension of an journalistic investigation drama. The style ruins the substance and you never really get a chance to empathise with either the title character or those surrounding her or indeed the Jewish victims she is supposedly campaigning to vindicate. Ebert's verdict is spot on: "There is a story to be told here, but somehow you have to see straight through the movie to find it." See more 10/06/2012 The original Erin Brokovich, a spunky underdog. A Bavarian black comedy. See more 01/30/2012 Not particularly a valuable addition to the film canon about the Nazi period. See more 01/10/2012 It's a hard balance of satire and serious content that's achieved in the film as a young woman throughout years of research and secrets tries to determine what happened in her village during the occupation of the Third Reich. The only flaws come in starting to shift the narrative perspective about halfway through the film and the extremely abrupt ending. See more Read all reviews

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