Where Hands Touch

Name: Where Hands Touch
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: September 14, 2018
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 44
Cast: Abbie Cornish, Adetomiwa Edun, Alec Newman, Amandla Stenberg, Christopher Eccleston

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Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: September 14, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Abbie Cornish, Adetomiwa Edun, Alec Newman, Amandla Stenberg, Christopher Eccleston, Ciarán Owens, Daniel Weyman, George MacKay, Lucy Russell, Olivia Vinall, Tim Faraday, Tom Goodman-Hill, Tom Sweet, Will Attenborough

Summary: Germany, 1944. Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother (Abbie Cornish) and a black African father, meets Lutz (George MacKay), a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father (Christopher Eccleston) is a prominent Nazi solider, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.Germany, 1944. Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother (Abbie Cornish) and a black African father, meets Lutz (George MacKay), a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father (Christopher Eccleston) is a prominent Nazi solider, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world. As Leyna’s mother strives to protect her from the horrors that she could face as a mixed-race German citizen, Leyna is forced to forge her own path as the war goes on and the Nazi’s increase their atrocities over the Jews and all dissidents. Can she find an ally in Lutz, himself battling a fate laid out before him that he is hesitant to embrace?… Expand

Director: Amma Asante

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, War

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 122 min

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Rex Reed

Sep 13, 2018

A tale of trauma and survival, Where Hands Touch is grim, compelling stuff, but the tireless humanism of the two leading characters makes it undeniably moving, aided by the careful and empathetic guidance of British writer-director Amma Asante (Belle, A United Kingdom). Read full review

Caryn James

Sep 11, 2018

Throughout, Asante raises questions about bravery, conscience and, most of all, identity. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Sep 10, 2018

Despite moments that risk subverting the vile treachery of Nazis in a bid to humanize this would-be soldier underneath his uniform, Asante refuses to erase the complexity of the situation at hand. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Tomris Laffly

Sep 10, 2018

While Where Hands Touch demonstrates confident filmmaking from a technical standpoint, Asante’s plot choices around the ambiguous development of Lutz feel irresponsible, especially during these risky political times that uncompromisingly demand us to be the opposite. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 10, 2019

The romantic relationship with the “good Nazi” is a little too glib (quite as it was in the film version of Suite Française) and the camp scenes have a misjudged sheen of romanticism and come perilously close to the bad-taste border. But Stenberg’s performance is good. Read full review

Kimber Myers

Sep 13, 2018

Asante usually excels at sharing stories audiences haven’t seen before, so it’s unfortunate that this one feels so dully familiar. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 19, 2018

Get past the “You learn something every day” aspect of writer-director Amma Asante’s follow-up to “Belle” and “A United Kingdom,” and the picture grates and annoys and falls to pieces, and not quietly. It’s so wrong. And there’s so much of it. Read full review

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Sollyguy

Nov 14, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Regardless of the bad reviews. This movie pulls away the focus on war to the more smaller things in life, especially in the black heart of Germany of 1944-45 where a German soldier falls in love with an African German woman during wartime. Perhaps some appear unrealistic, but the idea is to sell a story that is never proven in history that sells well from providing that you feel for both sides of the crisis, the innocent German soldier and the targetted 'hitlers problem'. German accents do not matter as they are obvious to be accents, the accents, if strong would fail to pronounce certain English words for the viewers (as well as the cast is mostly English speaking)

Conlcusion is that negative reviews fail to comprehend the entire movie and find that small inconvenience to them is the pinnacle of failure. A real review does NOT fell under 75 characters at least.… Expand

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Ralfbergs

Apr 26, 2020

Even though probably some things in this movie were too unrealistic, I still found it a good movie and it did have the feeling of how hard it was for some people in those times.

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MattBrady99

Feb 8, 2019

Hmm...yeah, that was a movie.

I don't know what's more distracting: The unnatural chemistry or the German accents. Where's Major Hellstrom from 'Inglourious Basterds' when you need him.

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notheguy

Jul 16, 2020

if you're considering watching this movie, don't

16 and pregnant - WW2 Special

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