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.
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11/24/06
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Requiem (2006)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:12
Rotten:1
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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Top CriticStage actress Sandra Huller delivers a stunning, understated performance...
11/17/06
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticThe 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 CriticIn lesser hands, Requiem would seem merely bleak, but Schmid makes a rigorously urgent and compelling film out of Michaela's odyssey.
11/02/06
Top Critic[Sandra Hüller's] intensity is so compelling you truly have no idea if those demons are real.
10/25/06
Top CriticYou won't find rotating heads and vomit in the exorcism movie Requiem. Instead, German director Hans-Christian Schmid relies on a frighteningly realistic performance by Sandra Huller as blue-eyed blonde Michaela.
10/20/06
Top CriticLike The Exorcism of Emily Rose ... Requiem is loosely based on the real-life story of a West German woman who died in 1976 after a series of failed exorcisms.
10/19/06
Top CriticJust as haunting as a horror film and far more heartrending.
10/19/06
Top CriticThis quietly unnerving psychological study from German director Hans-Christian Schmid wields its ambiguity about religion and science like a double-edged blade.
10/17/06
Top CriticSandra Hueller deservedly won an acting prize in Berlin (she could have taken home 'most conflicted character' as well).
09/23/06
Top Critic[A] stunningly played story of faith vs. family.
04/25/06
Top CriticClosely observed story of the mental and family pressures that can lead someone to accept an exorcism.
04/25/06
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