Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (Ulrich Mühe) will always be one of my favorite actors. His performance in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen The Lives of Others (2006) is masterful. I have rarely seen a film peformance in which a character’s small exterior gestures and ticks so subtly and perfectly hint at a turbulent, anguished interior. One tear dripping down Mühe’s cheek was almost impossibly painful to watch.
Mühe died in 2007.
He should be remembered.
February 9, 2009 at 10:32 pm |
Brilliant performance and film. One of the best films of the last decade. Please, Hollywood, don’t remake it.
March 3, 2009 at 5:33 pm |
A masterful and celebrated performance. One of the best in all Cinema history….mark my words.
March 3, 2009 at 5:38 pm |
Paul: I can’t disagree. And I don’t use the “best” word very often.
But you and I agree completely.
I have seen thousands of films. And there is only one performance that, simply when I think about it, gets me weepy.
Like right now.
March 3, 2009 at 5:40 pm |
That one tear coming down his cheek while he eavesdrops; that conversation at the table in the bar with the actress; the scene when he buys the book at the end…..
November 10, 2009 at 9:35 am |
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