Review of Love in Thoughts (2004) by Ian H — 30 May 2008

I had not heard of the Steglitz Student Tragedy of 1927, on which this film is based. This is a moving account of two young men on a quest for love, true love, as the pinnacle of life. And, once this pinnacle of happiness is reached, they make a pact to kill themselves and the person who took their happiness -- as living with anything less than the heights they had reached, as well as the memory of that time of happiness, will be sad and bitter.

It is an extremely intense film, and slow-moving at times, but the story comes through clear thanks to the fantastic actors, the wonderful filming and direction, and the sets and backgrounds, the music, and even the clothes the actors wear: you get caught up in this hedonistic world of the 1920s -- and the terrible tragedy that is about to unfold.