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Scarred Hearts

Inimi cicatrizate (Scarred Hearts)

2016

Radu Jude

Lucian Teodor Rus, Ivana Mladenovic, Ilinca Harnut, Serban Pavlu ...

6.3

142

Drama "Scarred Hearts" is inspired by Romanian author Max Blecher's novel, which is set in 1937. It centers on Emanuel, a man in his early 20s, who spends his days at a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast, suffering from bone tuberculosis. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the full as their bodies slowly wither but their minds refuse to give in. Blecher wrote the text, hailed ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"[A] episodic story lacking in narrative drive (...) The evocation of torture-like medical techniques of the era has a certain unnerving fascination"	NEU
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"[A] fanatically detailed, intellectually furious drama"	POS
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"A hospital stay that's unbearably long (...) 'Hearts' hardly develops a pulse"	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Thematically rich (...) Alternately funny, raunchy and sad, 'Scarred Hearts' is an intimate look at one writer making the best of awful conditions"	POS
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"There is a dispassionate, observant quality to Jude’s direction but enough humour and emotion in the story to warm the film"	POS
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"Despite the film's bleak premise, writer-director Radu Jude finds dark humor within the certainty of death (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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