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Malmkrog

2020

Cristi Puiu

Agathe Bosch, Ugo Broussot, Marina Palii, Diana Sakalauskaité ...

6.5

392

Drama “Malmkrog” is set at the manor house of an aristocratic landowner in Transylvania. Among the handpicked guests who have arrived to spend the Christmas holidays are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. Over sumptuous meals and parlor games, the guests discuss progress and morality, death and the Antichrist. As the debate grows more heated, cultural rifts between them begin to emerge, and the climate becomes increasingly tense. [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"The acting is admirable, especially given the long takes and marathon monologues (...) But for all its directorial mastery, this austere cine-symposium feels like an artistic blind alley"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	a film of formidable and almost intimidating seriousness, which is admirable and refreshing in its way, but it does not make many concessions to anything as vulgar as entertainment or even drama (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"It is uncompromising filmmaking, certainly, but also insular filmmaking that will make a tiny little circle of intellectual cinephiles very happy while leaving everyone else — this critic included — completely cold."	NEU
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"A cinematic experience despite a perverse amount of verbiage that demands absolute concentration for nearly three and a half hours"	POS
	Vladan Petkovic Cineuropa	"[It] demands from its viewers almost superhuman degrees of dedication, attention and stamina (...) Technically, the film is a feat of flawless set design and mise-en-scene"	NEU

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