This extraordinary piece of artistry and craftsmanship integrates its dazzling special effects so seamlessly that they're indistinguishable from the film's narrative, poetry, and, above all, metaphysics.
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09/25/07
FAUST (1926)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:5
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Murnau's FAUST stars the inimitable Emil Jannings as Mephistopheles, to whom the hapless and aging Faust sells his soul for renewed youth as well as wealth and power. Based on Goethe's... [More]
Starring: Gosta Ekman, Emil Jannings, William Dieterle, Camilla Horn
Director: F.W. Murnau
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Top CriticAs atmospheric and menacing a work as the expressionist movement ever produced.
09/25/07
Top CriticHere is a picture which is as far removed from the ordinary movie as a Tintoretto painting.
03/25/06
Top CriticI sometimes feel, in this age of expert CGI, that I am being shown too much -- that technique is pushing aside artistry and imagination. The world of Faust is never intended to define a physical universe, but is a landscape of nightmares.
01/20/06
Top CriticStill a classic example of eye-popping excess at a time when German filmmakers were among the most innovative in the world.
04/15/05
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