Schultze Gets the Blues (2005)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 18
Schultze Gets the Blues is a sweet and charming dark comedy.
Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 6
Schultze Gets the Blues is a sweet and charming dark comedy.
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Directed and written by Michael Schorr, Schultze Gets the Blues centers around Schultze (Horst Krause), a middle-aged accordionist whose lust for life is renewed after hearing a Cajun zydeco riff on the radio. Despite the fact that using his accordion for anything other than polka would be considered a sacrilege by his family -- Schultze's father was considered legendary in the polka circuit -- a newly invigorated Schultze jumps at the chance to change his musical style and takes it a step
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Horst Krause
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Harald Warmbrunn
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Ursula Schucht
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Hannelore Schubert
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Karl-Fred Mueller
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Wolfgang Boos
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Rosemarie Deibel
Frau Lorant -
Wilhelmine Horschig
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Alozia St. Julien
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Anne V. Angelle
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All Critics (71) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (18) | DVD (13)
He does, but you probably won't, especially from watching this movie.
Top CriticLike a lazy summer day in the Big Easy, the movie sneaks up on you.
Schorr's award-winning film may be a bit on the slight side to some tastes, but it's a journey well worth taking.
Schultze Gets the Blues can get a little thin, but it never loses its sense of quiet, playful dignity.
A film with two opposite interpretations to its title -- figuratively sad, literally joyful.
A delightful oddball German comedy about a retired mine worker's musical quest.
Like the films of Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismäki, Schultze Gets the Blues uses dry humor to extract laughs out of mundane situations.
Writer-director Michael Schorr's story moves with remarkable sloth.
It's a bit of a surprise when the film ends and you realize that you've been touched in unanticipated ways by Schultze's solitary quest.
...some predictable tearjerking that is only half-successful.
Krause, a natural physical comic, lights up with endearingly childish glee as he joyously samples his new life.
An uncommonly good-natured and simple film, bearing no malice, holding no agenda, desiring no undue attention.
When his friends send him off to America to his town's sister city of New Braunfels for Wurstfest, Schultze begins to spiral out of control.
Those who are patient enough to stick it out will be charmed.
The film's sparseness has an off-putting effect on the viewer. Schultze, the character, remains more an idea or concept than a fleshed-out human being.
Though it sometimes seems nothing much is happening in Schultze Gets the Blues, watching it happen to the deadpan Schultze is surprisingly enjoyable.
The geriatric, Teutonic equivalent of a Jim Jarmusch film.
A delightful hodgepodge of bland and spicy fixin's and genuine pleasures and surprises that will definitely satisfy the cinematic palates of discriminating audiences.
In his debut film, German writer-director Michael Schorr has crafted a deadpan and droll, yet lyrical, whale-out-of-water tale about defying peer pressure and self-limitations.
Schultze's quiet determination in his musical quest gives the film an unexpected emotional punch.
There's a pleasant delight in the comically dour faces of these old Eastern bloc men, an appreciation of sleepy small-town life in a quaint village.
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