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The curtain before a stage opens to present a Pina Bausch dance spectacle, "Café Müller." Among the spectators, two men are sitting together by chance--they don't know each other. They are Benigno, a young nurse, and Marco, a forty-something writer.The dance piece provokes such emotion that Marco breaks into tears. Benigno notices the shining tears of his casual companion in the darkness... See Full Description
| Genres: |
Art/Foreign, Drama, Musical/Performing Arts and Romance |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 52 min. |
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| Release Date: |
November 22nd, 2002 (NY) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for nudity, sexual content and some language. |
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| Distributors: |
Sony Pictures Classics
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$9,284,265 |
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
A-
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
"...funny, sexy, devastating and incurably romantic." more...
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A- |
BBC, Tom Dawson
"...an effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant work." more...
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A |
Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert
"...at the end, we are undeniably touched." more...
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A |
Cincinnati Enquirer, Margaret A. McGurk
"...revelatory, weirdly funny and impossible to forget." more...
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A- |
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