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Servants

Sluzobnici

2020

Ivan Ostrochovský

Vlad Ivanov, Martin Sulík, Milan Mikulcík, Zvonko Lakcevic ...

6.4

365

Drama The Catholic Church is having a hard time in Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s. The communist regime threatens to crush it unless it submits to strict control and accepts restrictions on freedom of belief and expression. The clergy is divided into the regime-critical “catacomb church”, which maintains contact with the Vatican and Western media, and the “ecclesiastical hierarchy” which cooperates with those in power and is represented by ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Sarah Ward Screendaily	"A compelling film (...) Ostrochovsky styles Servants with the flair and unease of film noir, while ramping up the tension almost to horror-movie levels"	POS
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Starting with the very first shot (...) [Ostrochovsky's] bold, confident strokes accumulate into a sharp portrait of restrained, stylish and brooding power."	POS
	Vladan Petkovic Cineuropa	"An uncompromising piece of arthouse cinema (...) The most impressive thing about Servants is how Ostrochovský has managed to sustain the unrelenting tension and uncertainty throughout the 80-minute running time"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"A brilliantly crafted, atmospherically enveloping seminary drama."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Pure evil permeates this brief, 80-minute film, whose cold visual brilliance reminds me of the recent movies of Paweł Pawlikowski (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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