Christiane F

Director Ulrich Edel has spared us none of the grimmest details of a young junkie’s life. And, thank goodness, because he’s managed to destroy a lot of glamorous myths about the subject.

[An] unflinching portrait of a teenage addict and sex worker...

This is one of the most horrifying movies I have ever seen. That it is based on actual events makes it more heartbreaking.

while it occasionally smacks... of didactic hysteria, it's a hard hitting look at a problem more widespread than most of us dare or care to think.

Brunkhorst is quite believable in the leading role, but in helping the film achieve a high level of veracity, it also gains a degree of sensationalism that doesn't sit well.

Christiane F is a fierce testimony whose authenticity cannot be denied. [Full Review in Spanish]

A great anti-heroin movie with an exceptional soundtrack.

Christiane F. is an unrelentlingly grim German film that vividly conveys the physical and mental debilitation of drug addiction.