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Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected (Ein Leben für ein Leben)

2008

Paul Schrader

Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Vasile Albinet, Idan Alterman ...

5.2

905

Drama. War Once, in the 1920s, Adam Stein was a happy man: a caring husband, the proud father of two daughters, and a celebrated star of Berlin’s vaudeville scene. He was a clown, an entertainer and a magician. Thirty years later he is bereft of all these talents. Adam is now a man without a future, or even a present —a man with a past that, like a black hole, drains him of every scrap of energy and deprives him of his will to live. In order to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"The film is so flat that it leaves you wondering if Mr. Kaniuk’s book is ultimately untranslatable to the screen."	NEG
United Kingdom	David D'Arcy Screendaily	"Adam Stein is consumed by grueling inner turmoil (...) Shrader navigates this emotional territory effectively."	POS
United States	Andrew Schenker Slant	"What do all Schrader’s visual grotesqueries achieve? Beyond the obvious power of its evocation of debasement, there’s little in the film that sticks (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"There will never be a final word on the Holocaust in books or in moves, but 'Adam Resurrected' opens a new and exciting window into the world of survivors who refuse to throw off their chains."	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"Even when it flies off the rails deep into its third act, 'Resurrected' remains strangely hypnotic."	POS

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