Murray Morison This is an exceptional film.The setting is (mainly) Berlin in 1944, with some flash forward to the late 1990's. It is a story about love in a time of war, with the complication that it is lesbian love and 'Jaguar' in the film is a Jewish woman, passing herself off as Aryan and surviving by being a secretary for the editor of a Nazi Newspaper, and keeping close to officers in the military.The acting by the two lead women is quite exceptional, capturing the great contrast between their personalities and revealing a relationship that is entirely believable.The sets, scenes and costumes are authentic and create the era really well; the camera work is excellent. The sense of menace, just somewhere off the screen, is well established and provides one of the real tensions of the film. This is a love story but it is also a story of courage and humanity. Well worth watching.

yiuclaudia I watched it tonight and I would certainly count it a loss if I missed watching it. It is simply brilliant! The acting, the story, the passion. I just could not stop crying, and this was over and over again. We knew the lovers were doomed but the courage and the love they felt for each other made us wish, no matter how unrealistic, that some miracle would happen, that somehow, they could be saved. Of course, this was not going to be so. Still, Felice was just bewitching, not because of her being so sexy, but because she was so much alive. Wow! I bought the DVD. I am not going to lend it to anyone, just in case they never return it to me. Wow!

Claudio Carvalho In Berlin, along the Second World War, Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader) is a bright Jewish lesbian working in a Nazi newspaper under a false identity and being member of a resistance organization. Lilly Wust (Juliane Köhler) is a woman married with the soldier Günther Wust (Detlev Buck), who is fighting in the German front. Lilly is mother of four children and has never found love, being unfaithful to her husband. Felice meets Lilly and they fall in love for each other, adopting the nickname of Jaguar (Felice) and Aimée (Lilly), jeopardizing the safety of Felicia. This true unconventional and sensitive love story, in a sad period of German history, is a wonderful movie. The reconstitution of the Berlin in the war period is amazing. The performance of the cast is stunning, and the direction is outstanding. Although dealing with lesbian love, this powerful, unforgettable and touching romance is one of the most beautiful film I have recently seen. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): 'Aimée & Jaguar'

mary-leezer What sets this apart from your typical Jew/Nazi movie was that it was a love affair between a wife of a Nazi hero and a Jewish girl who does not wear a star and is an assistant to the newpaper editor of Berlins biggest paper.The courage and nerve these young kids had is breathtaking and the disaster that they befell at the hands of the Nazis devastated me more than most typical Nazi movies. At some point I had a revelation. I understood that there was no imbalance of power. I realized that the Nazis were not all powerful as I had presumed. All around them were people of the same, if not more strength, opposing them. The resistance was as cunning and determined as the Nazis - it was inevitable that good would win. There is a line in the movie where one girl is telling another girl who is reprimanding her for something, "You did not create the world - God did." Wonderful way to say - you can't judge me.The love making scene is hard to watch. Don't get me wrong - I am not prejudice - it is hard to watch because the Lilly is so scared and beaten (psychologically, physically) by Nazi men and when the Jewish girl (Felice) kneels at Lilly's feet and just holds her ankles and rests her cheek on the Lilly's calves you are in as much pain as the Lilly. The actress who plays Lilly just breaks your heart because her whole body is wracked in these hysterical shivers and no words. It is the old saying put before you in the form of these two women - one Nazi, one Jewish - that `the master becomes the slave' And of course it symbolized the whole Nazi situation. It is what Shakespear tried to to teach us in MacBeth - the blood was so much more powerful than the knife.