Shot on DV, the film looks awful, but this homemade quality fosters an authenticity that allows for startling suspense as Yunes's secret life comes to light.
The Friend(Fremder Freund)
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Germany · 2003
Director Elmar Fischer
Starring Antonio Wannek, Navid Navid, Mina Tander, Mavie Hörbiger
Genre Drama
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Splendid story of a friendship that evaporates just before 9/11.
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After a tedious start building up the boys' lives and friendship, feature bow by Elmar Fischer becomes deeply engrossing in its second half, as the viewer learns of the hero's anguish and doubts.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Actors do an excellent job portraying young people struggling with an almost manic paranoia.
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
Some may be offended by this film's use of Sept. 11 as a plot device, but ultimately The Friend is less concerned with the politics of terror than with its psychology.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
If his ambitious first feature isn't entirely successful, it nevertheless poses genuinely provocative questions and opens a window into the way the 9/11 disaster looks from outside the U.S.
Chicago Reader by Reece Pendleton
The film's elliptical structure seems little more than a device to compensate for the thin dramatic material, but it's saved by a fine ensemble cast and Akhavan's convincing transformation from a naive romantic to a disturbing reactionary.
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