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Charlatan

Šarlatán (Charlatan)

2020

Agnieszka Holland

Ivan Trojan, Juraj Loj, Josef Trojan, Joachim Paul Assböck ...

6.2

789

Drama Biopic about the Czech healer Jan Mikolášek, who became a celebrity in the 1930s among the rich and poor, serving the Germans during the Nazi occupation and also the communist officers after the war.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A rich psychological puzzle (...) the film commands attention with its mesmerizing performances and lively cross-cutting between key moments in the hero’s life"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"[A] handsome, intelligently questioning but slightly dry biopic (...) It’s an ambitious portrait of human imperfection that doesn’t strain to arouse much affection for its subject in the audience"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'Charlatan' becomes entangled in its conflicting mesh of traits and time periods, but the film is only able to become more than the sum of its frustrating parts because it embraces those complications"	NEU
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"'Charlatan' is shot in a conventional, almost old-fashioned manner (...) It’s easily accessible on a visual level while being remarkably inexpressive on a sub-textual one".	NEU
	Marta Bałaga Cineuropa	"Charlatan may be modest in scale but still proves that Holland has more filmmaking knowledge in her little finger than most do in their whole, ailing bodies"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is a forceful, capable movie with an interesting story to tell but its potency consists in a handful of gripping episodes (...) a film that does not quite satisfy the curiosity it arouses. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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