My Last Day Without You

I really love this movie .... They should make more movies like this .... I wish that they would promote this kind of movies more often in Europe....The movie was very romantic and funny to watch! I really liked this movie because it's about a black girl and a German guy...my boyfriend is also German so I could relate to the story it felt so close. This is a high quality movie. A lot of interracial movies are low budget but this one is very well produced. The story line is a bit corny but I loved it. It is a feel good movie...The actors in the movie can act and they look very good on screen together.... The female actor also played in the movie black violin I think..... also a very good movie. What can I say more .....the movie was nice and I just want to make sure that the movie gets the credit that it deserves.....

I absolutely loved this movie! The love story between the two main characters is a modern update to anything we normally see on TV. As a native New York, I also fell in love with my city again! Every thing about this movie was fantastic and I highly recommend everyone sees it!

I love Nicole Beharie in Sleepy Hallow and when I realized this was her in the movie, it gave me so many more reasons to be obsessed with this.

The film was cute, and made me happy watching it. We need more films like this, coming out of Hollywood today!

I also heard the story is inspired by the writer and how he met his late wife. How could you not fall in love with a movie like that?

I am not too much into romantic movies, I rarely watch them. But this one really kept my attention, simply because of how unorthodox it is (comparing to genre fellows).There were no big screenplay-helping coincidences, just people who could act so due the state of the mind, they actually were at. One can see there are some actual events behind it. Dialogues are pretty civil and I like the fact being a different race couple isn't a leading issue. Yeah, characters are not ignorant about fact it is so ( for example dialogue about jazz musicians in Europe), but there is not the main theme. I love both Beharie and Duken- guy might be a big name in the future (I saw few of his movies and he created a few totally different personalities of his characters in them- in like Max Manus or the Ueberlingen accident.) I have edited my rating after I have seen it for the second time. I am really excited, how sincere this movie is. Keep on going the crew.

I'm someone that hates love stories. But I have to admit this movie was quite entertaining.

The story is pretty simple but effective. Business guy from Germany is in the States for a meeting and by accident falls in love with a woman - at first sight. The way this story is told is pretty real. The characters were likable and neither overacted nor uninteresting, OK maybe the taxi driver was a little but he is just a side character.

Acting was nice, maybe at a few moments a little bit overacted but still very nice. I liked the characters development as well. The music was nice and fitting. And somehow I had fun watching it, I guess you will as well.

"Happiness is always a coincidence" (Jose Bergamin).

Courage that gives a chance to personal freedom and coincidence that may open the door to happiness... For a number of reasons, some intentional and some coincidental, the film is, in a nutshell, a smoldering romance of new wave in the medium. Let me, however, highlight some deservedly important aspects of the content and the performances.

A terribly strenuous day for one Niklas (Ken Duken), an elegant, strict, principled, restrained young German businessman from Frankfurt, who is supposed to travel to New York City for one day with an unpleasant, severe mission. He is ordered to shut down a company that no longer occurs to be beneficial and fire the employees. He appears to have experienced most pleasures that life can give, surely all the ones that may be bought and yet, something aches in his mind and heart, something that cannot be removed by financial means – loneliness disguised in suit and manners of a businessman...

A crazy, unpredictable day for one Leticia (Nicole Behari), a beautiful, vibrant, young, unprincipled singer from NYC. As a daughter of a pastor, she needs relief and independence from the preachy style. Her songs, however, need new inspiration and promotion...yet, where she can find it is not where her real trouble lies. Something else aches in her heart, too, something that cannot be removed by artistic means – loneliness disguised in her songs - the only true expression of her inner self.

With a little bit of courage and a little irony of coincidence...this strenuous, unpredictable, crazy day will occur to be a truly turning point for the two. Flowers will be placed at the empty concrete and beauty at the gray routine – something the screenplay supplies us not merely on the screen...

Awarded at the Brooklyn International Festival and the Black Reel Awards, MY LAST DAY WITHOUT YOU directed by Stephen C. Schaefer and produced by Diane Crespo is a true surprise. Made at the new production companies, Cicala Filmworks and Silver Shepherd, it reveals nothing but a new wave in modern cinema with considerably unknown but very good cast and production merits that address the majority of modern audiences. The strongest points of this movie lie in pleasant direction, pretty uncomplicated but considerably appealing nature of storytelling, NYC's spirit of 'melting pot' expressed in the different ethnic backgrounds of the protagonists and quite vivid characters easily identified with. That makes the movie something both youngsters and elderly viewers may equally enjoy. Besides, it is important to note that this is a love story but no tearjerker whatsoever.

Although the content is quite predictable from the moment they see each other for the first time and Leticia gives Niklas her CDs as a self-promotion, the foregoing events are enjoyable to watch. The chemistry between the protagonists is worth attention. Although they differ, growing love is something that unites them. Late mothers of them both somehow see their actions. Although Niklas, as a European, cares about the past and Leticia, as an Afro-American does not necessarily bother with those things, they both find a mutual future (consider this multinational flair given to the characters). That aspect of 'loneliness is over!' 'we have found love!' 'we are born again!' is supreme and sealed by the final moment of the day when she sings the most meaningful, spontaneous song – dedication of her career. She has her rules and he respects them...he has his past and she learns it...they both have their inner dreams and they fulfill them...the test is quick and surprising.

The supporting cast hold the essence of humor. That refers, in particular, to Laith Nakli as a funny taxi driver who, from time to time, utters something hilarious and whose 'sleepy excesses' make for gales of laughter. Reg E Cathey is sympathetic as Pastor, a sweet old fashioned father who is, perhaps preachy at certain moments and who makes Leticia angry at times but the one who always has a good word for her. How nice it is to discover that he finds himself in a similar position to his daughter...

An enjoyable film, a brief depiction of coincidental/intentional love experience worth seeing in two. Is happiness always a coincidence? Hard to say...but, surely, nothing in it is planned by ourselves.