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10/30/09
Delta (2008)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:12
Rotten:9
Average Rating:5.8/10
Genre: Dramas
Director: Kornel Mundruczó
Reviews for Delta
For all its lofty thematic intentions, this thing has precious little to say.
09/25/09
Top CriticStrikingly shot though it is, this Hungarian film, by Kornel Mundruczo, is sunk by a drama that represents art-house cinema at its worst: a dull, gloomy tale that skirts questions of plausibility.
05/13/09
Menace escalates to rape and then murder. It's like a solemn, slow-motion version of Straw Dogs with the wrong side winning.
05/13/09
Slow, laconic Hungarian art-house fare, featuring rape, pig slaughter, and a symbolic tortoise.
05/13/09
Mundruczó generates a moderate amount of intrigue from the build-up but stubbornly resists handling his themes in any direct and digestible fashion.
05/08/09
Don't expect to come away a whole lot wiser, but for its duration this film is mesmerising, mysterious and startlingly beautiful.
05/08/09
Delta is a weird, eerie, and utterly compelling Hungarian gem. A lugubrious piece of genius.
05/08/09
The movie is lovely looking, but frankly a little specious and shallow.
05/08/09
Mundruczó’s first instinct is aesthetic rather than emotive. But if that strips the film of a measure of moral authority, it only adds to the feeling of hollow nihilism that stays with you long after the closing credits.
05/08/09
It's a stately, impressive drama enriched by understated performances and a terrible pall of dread hanging over this unnatural relationship.
05/08/09
Long, lyrical takes – including a startling shot of a floating funeral procession – and Schubert’s ‘Death And The Maiden’ on the soundtrack remind us that forbidden passion will only end in tears. The Danube’s rarely seemed so blue.
05/08/09
Kornel Mundruczó’s film has been dubbed the Hungarian Deliverance — but even John Boorman’s classic wasn’t shot as beautifully as this.
05/08/09
A powerful meditation on personal freedom from a Hungarian auteur.
05/07/09
Beautifully shot, occasionally stunning Hungarian drama, but it's also painfully slow, grimly predictable and unlikely to appeal to anyone other than hardcore arthouse devotees.
05/07/09
Delta, quite easy to laugh at, and deserving, at least, of impatience if not contempt, has a keen eye and a flexibility of expression as well as subtle intimations of depth that are worth sounding out.
10/26/08
Lies squarely on the very thin line that separates intelligent art films from plodding misfires, with a few too many diversions onto the wrong side of that line.
10/23/08
A beautifully atmospheric vessel that will seem infinitely deep to some and chafingly dry to others.
10/18/08
Top CriticKornel Mundruczo is back on his feet with his best rounded and most mature work to date.
10/18/08
It doesn't name its characters, hoping to make the story seem allegorical, or at least elemental, but the result is a movie that just makes itself hopelessly generic.
07/24/08
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