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Transit

2018

Christian Petzold

Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman ...

6.2

1,179

Drama. Romance When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. Stuck in Marseilles, he meets a young woman desperate to find her missing husband - the very man he's impersonating.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"A refugee portrait that piles contrivance upon contrivance to somehow land at a place of piercing emotional acuity"	NEU
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Challenging but rewarding (...) [Georg] is enigmatic and fascinating"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The more that Petzold’s film finds its rhythm, the more you feel the absence of any greater emotional undertow (...) A film that lucidly traces the specter of fascism"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"By turns intimate and expansive, 'Transit' is a thrilling, at times harrowing labyrinth of a movie (...) [An] extraordinary, haunted movie"	POS
United Kingdom	Demetrios Matheou Screendaily	"Elegantly made, ingenious and intellectually challenging. Yet it’s also too much like hard work to be entirely satisfying and, dramatically, it suffers from the same condition as its protagonists: inertia."	NEU
United States	Steve Macfarlane Slant	"'Transit' is perhaps the best World War II film since Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book' (...) It's sleek and confident (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Vikram Murthi rogerebert.com	"'Transit' snuck up on me, hitting me in the solar plexus at just the right moment. It’s a stunning work"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Its mysterious, dreamlike quality began to surround me like mist (...) The strangeness of this story will live in your bloodstream like a virus (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"A touching tale of flight from the Nazis that dodges the hot political buttons (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Ireland	Paddy Kehoe RTÉ	"The film works wonderfully with sly suggestion and ambivalence and we are never entirely sure about motive (...) Franz Rogowski is a brilliantly talented actor (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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