Never really considered myself a World Cinema fan, but given the recent lack of cinematic quality output from Hollywood, Bollywood or England, I decided to allow Germany to have an opportunity to shine on the big screen at home. First rented 'Downfall' - a fly-on-the-wall perspective of Hitler's last days living out an increasingly paranoid existence in a Berlin bunker , and then took out an option to try 'Goodbye Lenin' - a black comedy with a touching view of a son trying to reconcile her East German mother (who has just come out of a coma), to the fact that communism has fallen and the world has changed forever.
Verdict ? Excellent, deep and challenging - both of them.
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