Am I Missing Something?

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

***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)!