Maybe … Maybe Not
1995, R, 94 min.
Directed by Sönke Wortmann, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Krol, Rufus Beck, Antonia Lang, Armin Rohde.

Not reviewed at press time. I know that the words “German sex farce” have something of an oxymoronic ring to them, but that’s what Maybe… Maybe Not is. Interestingly, the movie is also Germany’s biggest box-office hit ever. It tells the story of a man who is loved both by a woman and a man, the complications that arise from that situation, and the hilarious ramifications of sexual identity. Will such comedy survive the trip across the Atlantic? Maybe, maybe not.

This article appears in August 30 • 1996 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.