A masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (25 January 2020)

Realistic script, actors with great chemistry, amazing cinematography and landscapes of Vienna. What more could be asked from this movie? Even though the lines were heavily rehearsed and there were zero improvisations, every dialogue and every glance the two lovers take at each other is absolutely raw. Especially the scene where the two are in the listening cabin and for around a minute we see them trying not to make eye contact. This is like real life because we see that the two are scared, they have their doubts. Love is a scary thing. This is what separates this movie from other romance movies -if this movie can even be called one- it's that romance is not the focus of the movie. Yes, it is present, but only after a deep emotional bond is formed between the two characters. It is not a surface level romance, like a fling, it is love. Pure deep love.
About the cinematography. The beauty of Vienna is perfectly captured. We see just enough of it, not too much that it bores us, not too little that we don't know where they are. Throughout the movie there are many places our characters go (the bar, the park, the bridge, etc.) and seeing these places without them in the last scene touches us as the audience. Because we realize that after this very short time they spent, all they have left are the memories they made. Life goes on in Vienna, as if the two never really were there.