Movie Review Agnes 2016 Film

The film opens in media res to suggest something very dramatic will happen down the line before flashing back to the first time Agnes (Johne) runs into Walter (Kampwirth), as the novel’s nameless narrator has been called here. He’s a non-fiction writer researching a vague book idea and she’s a young physicist. Working without much dialogue in the early going, Schmid, who co-wrote the adaptation with Nora Laemmermann, manages to clearly convey that it’s Walter who is immediately attracted to Agnes. Indeed, her ethereal, slightly otherworldly qualities — imagine a young Mia Farrow and you’re halfway there — immediately stand out in the otherwise entirely unremarkable university library in Duesseldorf (changed from Chicago in the novel) where they first meet.

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Rating : 3.5 / 5

Production companies: Lieblingsfilm, Atrack Film, WDR

Cast: Odine Johne, Stephan Kampwirth, Sonja Baum, Walter Hess, Berit Karla Menze, Oliver Buergin

Director: Johannes Schmid

Screenplay: Johannes Schmid, Nora Laemmermann, based on the novel by Peter Stamm

Producers: Philipp Budweg, Thomas Blieninger

Director of photography: Michael Bertl

Costume designer: Nicole Hutmacher

Editor: Henk Drees

Music: Michael Heilrath, Anna Ternheim

Casting: Daniela Tolkien

Sales: Pluto Film

No rating, 102 minutes