Love Your Female Neighbor! (1998)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Detlev Buck's films once used to be fun, in a way of weird and absurd humour and a lot of funny ideas and intelligent plots. To me all this is gone in his latest film. I was not only disappointed to see this film but even disgusted.I would not even call it "bad taste" to use rape as a kind of joke, I would call it "no taste at all". This is only one drastic example in a line of dozen others. It is not my habit to walk out of films but in this case it was close. I do not have a clue what could have been Buck's intention with this movie. I would not suggest watching it.

This is not a good film. It's neither entertaining nor making the viewer think of poverty and homelessness. The development of the main Character "Tristan" (laddie: Moritz Bleibtreu) is so ridiculous: He changes from a tough guy only affected by money and sex to a good boy who falls in love with an inhibited soldier of god. All he was seeking for was her virginity and after he got what he wanted he became a better person.The film fails because of two things: The plot gives the impression that the script only existed of a few key scenes which were strung together inaccurately. This makes the development of the story and of the two main characters Tristan and Josefine appear illogical. Moritz Bleibtreu plays on the level of a daily-soap actor. His bad guy behaviour is implausible. The new male german stars like Bleibtreu, Wink and Bauer shouldn't spend their time on fame but on learning to act (Bauer) and reading good scripts. And that's meant for Detlev Buck, too.

The movie is not that much special, except the role of Josefine (Lea Mornar). I hope she will be in many other movies too. I think she is very talented and made this movie a great pleasure to watch.

With this movie, Detlev Buck could have done a good deal - if the plot would have been worked out little more. The base story is really good: Two young attactive girls, female "soldiers of god" (kind of Salvation Army), were sent to a big city (Berlin) to support the local alms-house. But in city live they immediately were confronted with totaly new and unknown situations - especially men, but also suicides, the running gag of the movie. Unfortunately there is more plot than the movie can take. Several scenes just indicate important events, e.g. as Isolde (Heike Makatsch) was "raped" by Butsch while she's unconscious (-> Heinrich von Kleist, "Die Marquise von O...").The movie is very fast and contains lots of events - maybe viewing a second time could bring up more subtle details. For a comedy it doesn't make you laugh enough, but it's good entertainment - 7/10 for this nice (typical) german movie.