The Good Neighbour
Press
"The director demonstrates a manic and pleasing attention to details and knows how to create an atmosphere of perfect anxiety. (...) The success of the film is based primarily on the interpretation of Charly Hübner in the role of the too attentive neighbour. His imposing stature and his voice too readily posed let the audience guess that a dangerous psychopath is hiding behind the seemingly good man, but his disarming children face collecting child soldiers guarantees him a capital of sympathy which makes it all more disturbing." Claude Rieffel - www.avoir-alire.com
"At the beginning an everyday setting is overbearing, but with time the internal tension takes over on screen and leaves no choice to the protagonists but fatal violence. Towards the end the story is full of false tracks and spectacular turns, which denote a standard of a movie better than a TV-crime thriller. There is more to Roberts character than only the psychopath next door. He seems more like a lonely weirdo, who is to clingy. Certainly Charly Hübners interpretation of Roberts character is not one of a psychopath, but a lonely guy who is supposed to deal better with disappointments in real life" Peter Gutting - www.kino-zeit.de