Requiem isn't a horror movie so much as a thwarted coming-of-age story, like Carrie without the bloody reckoning.
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10/20/06
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Requiem (2006)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:30
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: This harrowing, naturalistic drama holds you in its grip through Huller's intense performance.
Theatrical Release:Oct 18, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Michaela has grown up in a deeply religious family, in a small town in Germany, in the 1970's. Despite her long battle with epilepsy, she leaves home and secures her first taste of freedom while... [More]
Starring: Sandra Huller, Burghart Klaussner, Imogen Kogge, Anna Blomeier
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
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Reviews for Requiem
A naturalistic and thrillingly powerful film, with a stand-out performance from Hüller at its centre.
11/21/06
Working from an economical and intelligent script by Bernd Lange , Schmid directs his first feature with the easy conviction that eluded the makers of the preposterous Emily Rose.
11/24/06
Top Critic[Huller] combines the raw physicality of Michaela’s seizures with an emotional confusion as she ponders the cause of her attacks and how to react to them.
12/30/06
an intense, disturbing and bleak drama of ecstasy and insanity, all set in a world where, if there is a God at all, it truly requires a leap of faith into the dark to grasp Him.
06/15/07
The nonsensationalistic results are also somewhat ho-hum -- and oddly less convincing than Friedkin's lurid mess, let alone the elegant satanism sagas of Tourneur and Polanski.
11/16/06
Stage actress Sandra Huller delivers a stunning, understated performance...
11/17/06
The confusion and panic and everyday interactions in Requiem feel honest and true-to-life, which has nothing to do with how factual it is, or isn't.
11/16/06
Top CriticTakes the flashback sequences from Exorcism of Emily Rose, removes all the supernatural scares, and tries to keep you interested.
10/19/06
A tragic tale of teen rebellion and misplaced faith, this is a sober and sobering account of a young girl's untimely end, made enthralling by great performances and restrained direction.
12/30/06
[Sandra Hüller's] intensity is so compelling you truly have no idea if those demons are real.
10/25/06
Top CriticRequiem shows us with a sense of palpable reality (and without any special effects) what being -- or feeling -- possessed must be like for Michaela herself and her family.
04/25/06
The film is incisive about the all-too-mundane social, physical and emotional pressures exacted upon its heroine.
09/23/06
What matters in Requiem amounts to the fine performances, Schmid's assured hand, and the magnificent rustic scenery.
03/01/07
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03/15/07
Sandra Hueller deservedly won an acting prize in Berlin (she could have taken home 'most conflicted character' as well).
09/23/06
A demonic posession movie WITHOUT special effects? Horrors!!!
10/20/06
Closely observed story of the mental and family pressures that can lead someone to accept an exorcism.
04/25/06
Top CriticWhat cannot be debated is the strength of Huller's naturalistic lead performance, a frighteninglyn intense turn that brings to mind Emily Watson's work in Breaking the Waves.
11/03/06
In lesser hands, Requiem would seem merely bleak, but Schmid makes a rigorously urgent and compelling film out of Michaela's odyssey.
11/02/06
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