Review

Aimée & Jaguar is a rare film, it leaves the audience weeping about the dire consequences an intense love has wrought, but exhilarated over the existence of such love. From the first bars of the mournful lush score we know this story won't end well, but the journey takes us to a place of love we have seldom seen in a film. Aimée tells the true story of Lilly (Kohler) and Felice (Schrader), lovers in WWII Germany. Lilly Wust is married to a Nazi officer away at the front and has many affairs while her handsome husband is gone. Felice is the leading light of her circle of lesbians, in love with Ilse (Wokalek), but smitten with Lilly. Felice knows that the relationship is impossible, but she doesn't care, she's headstrong and she's met her soul mate. Felice is not only a lesbian, but Jewish as well…prime target for the Nazis to ship off to the camps. The story is told through flashbacks when Lilly is an old woman being brought to a retirement home where she happens to meet another of their circle from the war. A touching film that tells an intense story told without Hollywood syrup, Bravo!