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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

2016

Maria Schrader

Josef Hader, Aenne Schwarz, Tómas Lemarquis, Barbara Sukowa ...

5.9

1,583

Drama Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"This articulate, formally immaculate portrait proves less compelling in practice than it does in principle"	NEU
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Much of the feature’s quietly accumulated emotional power derives from the fact that viewers have to connect some of the dots themselves."	POS
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"[Schrader] compellingly charts [the characters'] psychological sense of displacement (...) 'Farewell to Europe' has the air of a long-winded lecture (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"A handsome, scrupulously serious film (...) [A] thoughtful treatment of one of the countless real-life tragedies of 20th-century history."	POS
United States	Village Voice	"[It] is history worthy of the author himself (...) Schrader shows a technical assurance too often lacking in modern cinema."	POS
United States	Michael Nordine IndieWire	"Schrader’s direction is unobtrusive but agile (...) A rare example of a biopic that gives the sense of a life lived while also bucking some of the genre’s more stifling trends."	POS
United States	Thelma Adams The New York Observer	"[A] gorgeous biopic (...) This slender yet dense biopic deserves praise for how it reanimates the author (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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