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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

'Four minutes' is a 2006 German movie about a young woman prisoner Jenny and her old piano teacher Kruger. While the music class part by part the past stories of these women reveal to us. The flashback reveals that this prison used to be a hospital where the old piano teacher worked and her affair with another nurse. And another flashback about Jenny and her difficulty earlier life she went through. As a talented, Jenny is also the rough and tough with her inmates. Like all the prison story here too there be a trouble giving enemy and a tough warden who always eye on her. Their's target is Jenny, to stop her from taking piano lessons and entering the competition.Jenny was a musical prodigy and her initial portions of the story were portrayed as she's sorta some rebellion. There were many scenes I just don't get it like the security provided for Jenny during she was taken for the contest on the outside. And I don't know why the story had some racism remarks on Afro-European music in a couple of scenes and it never explained anywhere later. I guess those days are like that especially in Nazi Germany.Still I felt both the two main characters were not explained well especially Jenny's past were mostly told as a story than what we are expected to see as the actual one. In Kruger case it was different it showed the main portions of her flashbacks to match it with preset of her. The last four minutes of the movie are what represents the title before the credit rolls up. That was a grand finale for a movie with a story like this. The end scene was kinda good like the movies 'Sound of Noise' or 'August Rush'.8/10

A lot has been said about the plot, so I'm not going to repeat the obvious. However, I would like to criticize the generally positive reviews: While the sets and the photography are superb, the acting was awful. I thought I was witnessing an actor's workshop aiming at maximum intensity; in many scenes the characters acted unbelievably, with all their shouting, rage and fear.This was increased by the awful, superficial and stereotyped script: The piano teacher was a lesbian (of course), suffering because she was forced to suppress her feelings by the society, i.o.w. Germany in Nazi times. How many timwa will we have to deal with this? Why not make characters more believable by making them less extreme? Same goes for the student.So there you go: Three out of ten. I am sorry, but don't let the award and the enthusiasm of others fool you; instead, use some common sense.

I found this a passionate, engrossing and imaginative story, with well chosen musical context provided by Mozart (who would have thought the A major piano sonata would sound so beautiful on the flute stops of a church organ?), Schubert and Beethoven as well as some highly original, presumably specially written, piano pieces (given an unfortunate racist slur by Frau Kruger, it must be admitted). 'Four Minutes' was very well acted, especially by the two leads. Undeniably there was a flaw which might offend one or two musical purists in that a concerto would not be played, least of all in a competition, without an orchestra, however I felt this was justified by the ensuing and brilliant conclusion. This was a film which had much to say about human relationships, about how we are relentlessly shaped by our past, and about how the effects of appalling past experiences may (if we are lucky or have some kind of faith, perhaps) be in some way resolved. I was intrigued by the dedication to an apparently real-life Frau Kruger but have not, as yet, managed to delve deeper into this.

The women's prison in Germany in which this film is set is a place of bullying and beatings, of despair and suicide, of boredom, football and ping-pong. In these grim surroundings an elderly visiting piano teacher collides with a wild inmate serving a life sentence for murder and harbouring an extraordinary talent for piano. Traude and Jenny are polarised personalities from the moment that they meet; again and again their differences boil up and threaten Jenny's entry into a young pianist competition. Their path is troubled further by the hostility of prison inmates and staff alike, including Kowalski, an emasculated prison guard played by Richy Muller, and the reappearance of Jenny's father, which dredges up terrible memories.Through confrontation of demons past and present, both Traude and Jenny begin to delve into the other's background, revealing the reality beyond the ossified teacher and the abominable student. Traude's history is illuminated through flashbacks to the Second World War, but although these scenes are well choreographed and filmed, they fit awkwardly at best into the main narrative and encroach upon a sterling performance by Monica Bleidbtrau. The details of Jenny's life are left scarce and tantalising, which plays to Hannah Herzsprung's performance, by turns angry and beautiful, scary and charming.This film is graced by some excellent pieces of classical music, at least from my standpoint as a layperson in the classical music world. The musical and dramatic highlight comes at the film's climax – the Four Minutes of the film's title, which features a stunningly original composition, encapsulating the turmoil of the previous two hours and leaving a vivid and lasting impression.