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Faust

2011

Aleksandr Sokúrov

Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla ...

6.4

1,301

Drama. Fantasy Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its literary adaptations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German.

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The movie expands in its frame, surpassing simple comprehension and continuing to grow in your mind (...) long after it's over."	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Taking highbrow to the edge of slapstick, Sokurov’s idiosyncratic adaptation of Goethe’s Faust will intrigue some and turn off others (...) audiences with no prior knowledge of the story are likely to be lost"	NEU
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Sokurov brings his singular vision to 'Faust', though it's difficult to categorize the accomplishment (...) The idiosyncratic helmer adds his own spin on the classic legend"	NEU
United States	Godfrey Cheshire rogerebert.com	"Compared to many Sokurov films, this one has an enlivening paradoxicality: it's morbid but upbeat, grim yet rapturous (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nikola Grozdanovic IndieWire	"The acting from the principal actors is impressive (...) [It produces a] mixture of confusion and amazement"	NEU
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"A morbid, mightily uninvolving piece (...) An ugly and remote tale"	NEG
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"Sokurov is totally confident in his style, tone, dialogue, and ideas. But I don’t understand why he bothers to speak if he doesn’t care about being understood."	NEU
United States	Bill Weber Slant	"Though its ballast of jokes and spectacle are formidable, it often lurches about at a remote, enigmatic distance (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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