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| | miaminewtimes.com Film Love Among the Ruins 2000-09-14 |
 | | That Felice, who is so guarded with her feelings, should lose herself so completely in Lilly is as surprising as the fact that Lilly, until then strictly heterosexual, should fall so deeply in love with Felice. |
 | | Max Färberböck, an award-winning television director making his first feature, and co-writer Rona Munro have pulled off the difficult feat of making us accept what on the surface seems to be a very odd pairing: the clever, sophisticated Felice and the beautiful but shallow Lilly. |
 | | Set in Berlin in 1943 and based on a true story, the movie concerns the love affair between two women: one a Jew passing as a Gentile while working for the underground, the other a German housewife honored by the Third Reich as an “exemplar of Nazi motherhood.” |
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