Der kurze Brief zum langen Abchied is about a German man who goes to America to get away from his ex wife.
This TV-movie is based on a book Short Letter, Long Farewell. In the book the man goes to America in the search of his wife.
In the film, he flees to American after abusing her a lot however she follows him leaving clues for him to find her.
The language of the film starts in German than switches to English than to German than to English and finally to German.
This is suppose to give a sense of Alice in Wonderland however it does not. Though, I think the writer missed the point of Alice in Wonderland. (Celine and Julie Go Boating is a good example of a movie inspired by Alice in Wonderland)
What the viewer gets is arty footage and odd ball characters just to make the film look cool. Also, lot of popular music of the 70's was played.
The issue with the film, the director was too busy trying to make the film look cool and stylish, he forgot about the characters. The character was uninteresting, flat, emotionless and unlikeable.
There is one notable cool scene involving knitting and counting.
I did notice the writers and director didn't understand American culture. There were a few American stereotypes
I gave it a four stars because the music was good and Geraldine Chaplin.
