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David Denby on "The Passion of the Christ"
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Christiane (Katrin Sass), the saintly Communist in the German social comedy "Goodbye, Lenin!," has a noble brow, a steady gaze, and fine, straight hair. She's a handsome woman who would disdain as frivolous any attempt to make herself beautiful. Living in East Berlin with her family in 1989, she doesn't notice the dun-colored uniformity all around her; if she did, she might say that drabness is a virtue. Christiane couldn't be called a Stalinist, yet she's a true believer, a dim celebrant of Communist kitsch who listens to cliches about sacrificing for the glorious future ...