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ACTOR
Corinna HarfouchNico RognerMehdi DehbiValérie Leroy
DIRECTOR
Jan Krüger
SYNOPSICS
Looking for Simon (2011) is a German,French,English movie. Jan Krüger has directed this movie. Corinna Harfouch,Nico Rogner,Mehdi Dehbi,Valérie Leroy are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. Looking for Simon (2011) is considered one of the best Drama,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Simon, a young German doctor, who is living and working in Marseille, doesn't give any news. His appartment is empty. Valérie, his mother, is desperate. She doesn't understand the reason of his disappearance. Therefore she asks Jens, the former boyfriend of Simon, to come to Marseille and help her out on this research.
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A beautiful movie
I finally had the chance to watch "Auf Der Suche" (Looking for Simon). Unfortunately the movie seems to be really unknown to a wider audience which is a pity! Probably there was not enough promotion. It is a kind of coming of age and gay interest movie. Nico Rogner delivers good acting alongside Corinna Harfouch, who is a brilliant actress from Germany. Maybe I reviewed the movie too subjective, because I'm friends with Nico in real life. Give this movie some time to develop when watching; you won't be disappointed.
Plain but still good
Actually is an average gay interest movie, mother and children relationships, plus there is dead in the end. Story line about a mom (Valerie) asking her son's ex-boyfriend (Jens) to help her to looking for her missing son. Their adventure begin and finally found Simon (her son) in unexpected ways. The reason Valerie asking Jens to help her still bother me. I mean, Simon have many relationship with other men and even women. Beside, Jens said that they are not couple anymore for to years behind. Simple story but I'd like to say still good watching. If you need a warm story line, this one will be perfect.
Search for Simon, search for a good movie stays unsuccessful
"Looking for Simon" is despite the title a German, mostly German-language film from 2011, so 8 years old now approximately and one of the more recent filmmaking efforts by writer and director Jan Krüger. It runs for under 1.5 hours, so not a very long film by any means, and the most known cast member here is Corinna Harfouch, while German film buffs may also know Trystan Pütter perhaps who plays the main character in flashbacks. This is the story of a mother travelling to France in search of her son who has been missing for a week. She gets help from an ex-boyfriend of the son and this is apparently enough for people to call this a gay-themed movie. Fairly thin if you ask me. I don't call it a hetero-themed film either because there is one surprising plot twist when we find out that Simon was not only dating a girl, but close to moving in with her. Here the coincidence of them finding the video where he makes out with said woman also feels way too much honestly. Oh well, that did feel for the sake of it. Like a lot else in this movie, like the unrealistic coincidence that Harfouch's mother had a car collision with a woman they randomly run in later on and who could help them with their search. They tried to make this film about the conversations between the characters and not all about if they find Simon, but I personally did not feel impressed by the tensions and atmosphere, so for me it really all came down to the question where he is and what happened to him. If at all. I must say that the longer the film went, the less I cared about it honestly. Still the revelation at the end stayed in the mind too. But the consequences made little to no sense to me and were eventually also the reason why I gave a relatively low rating to this movie. The girl he was about to move in with did not collapse from grief? The mother well you could say she has that stay strong mentality thingey going on, but she breaks down in tears during other less devastating occasions. And the boyfriend who obviously still cared a whole lot for Simon, which we can see on several occasions and not just through the general fact that he joins in ambitiously on the search. All three of them hardly cried at all it feels. Also visually I hoped this could be a better film to be honest. France has a lot more to offer than that and the bleakness of the shore for example could have helped the film in terms of the depressing atmospheric impact it could have made. I don't think this is a film that was acted badly by any means, but the script did not do them any favors, even if the subtle approach felt right most of the time and there is a lot more under the surface for this film than you might initially think. As a whole, I give the movie a thumbs-down. It is a close call, but I think the weaknesses and moments where nothing interesting happens are more frequent than the strengths and memorable moments. Only worth seeing for huge Harfouch fans. Everybody else may want to skip the watch and go for something else instead.
useful
a mother looking her son. the boy friend of him. meets, talks, trips. and the answer. nothing new, original or unexpected. and this is the good point. because the story becomes fascinating for the small details and gestures and crumbs of freedom and memories. the feelings. and the states of soul. good performances. and the bitter taste of a clash between fear, need of certitude, hope and an answer who seems be obvious from the first scene. it is a beautiful film because it could be a kind of poem. because the looking for Simon is almost a pretext for discover basic truths. for redefine solitude. for a form of coming age and sexual tension. for a precise portrait of motherhood. and for delicate explore of old sentimental connects. it has the virtue to be an oasis -film. because it could be a sort of mirror for the viewer, support of reflection, drawing of a form of search of yourself.