Gloomy Sunday (Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod) (2000)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 64
Fresh: 54 | Rotten: 10
Gloomy Sunday is beautiful, well-acted, and every bit as downcast as its title.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 3
Gloomy Sunday is beautiful, well-acted, and every bit as downcast as its title.
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Rolf Schuebel makes his directorial debut with this subtly-told true story about one the 1930s' most memorable melodies. Set just prior to WWII, the film focuses on Hungarian beauty Ilona (Erika Marozsan) and her significant other Laszlo Szabo (Joachim Krol), a dapper owner of Budapest's finest restaurant. Though Ilona is known for her prowess on the piano, the two decide to hire a professional as the finishing touch on their classy establishment. They hire Andras (Stefano Dionisi), a taciturn
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Cast
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Joachim Król
Laszlo Szabo -
Stefano Dionisi
Andras Aradi -
András Bálint
Ilonas Sohn -
Erika Marozsan
Ilona -
Ben Becker
Hans Wieck -
Rolf Becker
Der alte Wieck -
Aron Sipos
Arzt -
Geza Boros
Geigenspiler -
Ilse Zielstorff
Frau Wieck -
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All Critics (72) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (10) | DVD (4)
It's intelligent, well-acted and beautifully photographed.
Top CriticA superior soap opera not unlike what Douglas Sirk might have churned out in the 1950s.
Its old-fashioned romanticism is heady, and the relationships among the characters are intriguing.
It has enough opulent, oversized romanticism to make it a guilty pleasure, not to mention three attractive and appealing characters and, of course, that song.
It's a stirring and provocative affirmation of the power and resilience of love.
Gloomy Sunday has a mood and a magic about it that elicit emotion from the beginning and make an audience follow it down its curving and melancholy path.
With the Hungarian song "Gloomy Sunday" as its thematic centerpiece, this personalized story of Budapest during World War II becomes a satisfying romantic drama about four divergently different people.
Undoubtedly deserves to be added to the ranks of the best Holocaust films ever made.
It's old-fashioned, sometimes accomplished, syrupy and, at its intermittent best, absorbing.
Like many European films, GLOOMY SUNDAY has crisp cinematography and gorgeous production design, not to mention that hauntingly melancholic titular tune. The principal actors, for the most part, are attractive and talented. The movie apes the traditi
This strange movie has a hard time balancing all these elements, but the film's enormous passion overcomes its more obvious melodrama.
...exudes joy and heartbreak and a good deal of pure, unadulterated sensuality.
It's hard to say which is more ravishing and alluring in the movie, Ms. Marozsan or the celebrated song.
A smoothly crafted, intermittently charming film . . . the dips and turns are predictable and the tense scenes surrounding unhinged or scheming Nazis have been done before.
It's a film worth seeking out, a good fit for a rainy Saturday or any other less-than-bright day of the week.
This is the kind of material you expect to find in a Lifetime cable-channel movie.
It's a cracking good yarn, well-told and impeccably acted, especially by Król.
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Foreign Titles
- Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (DE)
