While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

***mild spoilers*** This is an extremely stylized version of Camille, using operatic acting and sets, and absurd melodramatic techniques. Schmid was a colleague of Fassbinder, and uses many of the master's post-modern camera and performance techniques. For those who can appreciate the style, it's beautifully accomplished. If only Robert Taylor had dug up Garbo's corpse (it's in the novel)!