i love this movie madly . . i saw it four day ago and it still hasn not let go of me . floyd and walter and ricco have only one last night together to come to term with the fact that floyd will ship out on a freighter the next morning . they drift into that bleak hamburg night like they would on any other and and the mundane become suddenly extraordinary a the reality of the impend farewell percolate through their celebration . what they leave behind in the night and be that total abandon you can only afford those few year between be a kid and suddenly be old . this be one from the heart . it get everything and the riotous humor and fun of outrun the crew of an elvis stuntshow and the tempo and jumpcuts of a strobelight punkclub and a heart as big a the v 8 walter put in his ford granada and the thrill of a deathmatch . in foosball . the film remind u how intoxicating friendship can be and how good it can feel to be that drunk from a toast to a leave friend . like the perfect song represent happy in it rhythm and sad in it melody . floyd say early into the film something like i wish everyone could have his own soundtrack and that there would always be music . so that if youre really down and there would still be the music . and when youre the happy in your life the record would skip and the moment would never end . after their last night and when floyd look up into the hamburg sky one last time and the soundtrack to the film do skip and capture that perfect moment and the essence of parting and that loss that really isn not and that unbearable inevitability that tomorrow your best friend will be far away . i can only hope that this total charmer find a distributor in the u. s. i be sure it would find an audience somewhere in the same aisle that love that big wednesday come of age urgency and the tempo and irreverence of go and the unpretentious humor of it a jungle out there or no more mr. nice guy and the unspoken loyalty in any of the winnetou movie . a for sebastian schipper the director and whose eloquence in talk about his film ( and car ) at the german filmfestival in los angeles rival the ease with which this film speak to you in a way i be already sorry to see him become famous . he will soon join tom tykwer a the posterboy for the new german film and i be afraid he will lose his genius eye and savant heart much like he lose his enthusiasm for foosball .