This is an exceptional film.
The setting is (mainly) Berlin in 1944, with some flash forward to the late 1990's. It is a story about love in a time of war, with the complication that it is lesbian love and 'Jaguar' in the film is a Jewish woman, passing herself off as Aryan and surviving by being a secretary for the editor of a Nazi Newspaper, and keeping close to officers in the military.
The acting by the two lead women is quite exceptional, capturing the great contrast between their personalities and revealing a relationship that is entirely believable.
The sets, scenes and costumes are authentic and create the era really well; the camera work is excellent. The sense of menace, just somewhere off the screen, is well established and provides one of the real tensions of the film. This is a love story but it is also a story of courage and humanity. Well worth watching.
The setting is (mainly) Berlin in 1944, with some flash forward to the late 1990's. It is a story about love in a time of war, with the complication that it is lesbian love and 'Jaguar' in the film is a Jewish woman, passing herself off as Aryan and surviving by being a secretary for the editor of a Nazi Newspaper, and keeping close to officers in the military.
The acting by the two lead women is quite exceptional, capturing the great contrast between their personalities and revealing a relationship that is entirely believable.
The sets, scenes and costumes are authentic and create the era really well; the camera work is excellent. The sense of menace, just somewhere off the screen, is well established and provides one of the real tensions of the film. This is a love story but it is also a story of courage and humanity. Well worth watching.