Great Freedom

2021

116 mins

Directed by Sebastian Meise
97%
92%
Drama
Award Winner

Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and nominated for the Queer Palm at Cannes 2021, this German postwar... More

Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and nominated for the Queer Palm at Cannes 2021, this German postwar drama follows a man constantly thrown in prison for his homosexuality. During this time, his one steady relationship happens to be with his cell mate—a convicted murderer.

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Great Freedom | Ratings & Reviews

97_%62 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
92_%77 reviews
Audience score rating

"The characterisations and performances are so exact and restrained... that the result is affecting and often wrenching cinema..."

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RogerEbert.com

"Low key, affecting and insistently unsentimental..."

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The New York Times

"In Great Freedom, the question of love is refreshingly never too far from bodily intimacy, irrespective of what kind of love that is."

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Slant Magazine

"Subdued but powerful..."

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IndieWire

"A slow-burn drama that refuses to take the easy route towards an angry, emotionally manipulative issue film."

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Screen Daily

"A poignant, potent drama - and a love story, actually...."

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Salon

"Meise's film is an exquisite marriage of personal, political and sensual storytelling, its narrative and temporal drift tightened by another performance of quietly piercing vulnerability from Franz Rogowski."

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