Mildly enjoyable, above average directed comedy with stretches of boredom (that terrible dream sequence!) as well as some very funny scenes, with a couple of ridiculous and intellectual pretensions on the side. The most remarkable thing about this coming out comedy, in which a homo comes out that he is hetero, is that the makers do not let him fall in love with a single girl, but only with a single mother; it is an old theme of mainstream (German) film again of  almost compulsive completing of broken-up families. Were the makers afraid that otherwise the film would not have been acceptable to a large audience if the homo/hetero had not also been  a really nice father-figure? Franka Potente is great.

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