The picture even stars an actor, Til Schweiger, who has been
dubbed by the German press “the German Brad Pitt.” It’s clear the Germans
need to learn two things: 1) It’s no big deal to have a Brad Pitt; and 2)
Their Brad Pitt is better than ours.

Schweiger is an appealing discovery, a smooth-faced yet ruggedly
handsome actor who can smolder one second and goof it up the next, without
seeming either vain or self-conscious. He plays Axel, a 30-year-old Tom
Jones-type — a happy, randy fellow whose promiscuity has less to do with
selfishness than with a kind of roll-with-it good humor.

The gay element is big in “Maybe . . . Maybe Not,” which is set in
Cologne. When Axel’s girlfriend (Katja Reimann) throws him out (for
cheating), he falls in with a
group of new gay acquaintances. Chief among them is Norbert (Joachim Krol),
who thinks Axel is gorgeous and takes him in as a roommate in the hope he
might be bisexual.

“I think all heteros should go gay,” Norbert says (in subtitle)
to a friend. “And I think women should go into politics. That’s the only
way to save the world.”

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The title “Maybe . . . Maybe Not” is unfortunate, coloring the
experience of the movie in misleading ways. The audience is never in doubt
that Axel is straight. The laughs come rather from the havoc the presence of
a straight Adonis causes in the life of a forlorn, middle-aged drag queen —
and from Axel’s clumsy efforts to regain his girlfriend Doro’s trust.

Director Sonke Wortmann presents everything through a lens of affection
and absurdity. The film ends up imparting to Doro and Norbert a kind of
nobility in suffering, for having the misfortune to be drawn to such a
lovable, dim and hopelessly irresponsible guy.