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Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (2002)


ESCAPE TO LIFE: THE ...
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Vanessa Redgrave, Corin Redgrave
Directed by Andrea Weiss, Wieland Speck
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This portrait of Erika Mann and Klaus Mann, the two openly gay oldest siblings of German writer Thomas Mann (DEATH IN VENICE) follows them from childhood through adulthood in the mid-1900s. more...

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Education/General Interest, History, Documentary, Writers

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 RATING: ROTTEN  READING: 33%
(FRESH = 60% or Greater)
  Reviews counted: 6
Fresh: 2  Rotten: 4
  
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3/5  "An interesting, if not entirely successful, biography of two extraordinary personalities."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE

  "Weiss and Speck capture the rich, turbulent tapestry of the Manns’ lives."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

  "It's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over, but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES

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  "Weiss and Speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes."
-- Ed Halter, VILLAGE VOICE

  "The re- enactments, however fascinating they may be as history, are too crude to serve the work especially well."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES

1.5/4  "Why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures? Wouldn't one about their famous dad, author of Death in Venice, etc., be more valuable?"
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST

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