Gloomy Sunday (2003)
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Reviews Counted:64
Fresh:54
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Gloomy Sunday is beautiful, well-acted, and every bit as downcast as its title.
Theatrical Release:Nov 7, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $223,827
Synopsis: Set in pre-World War II Budapest, GLOOMY SUNDAY is a romantic melodrama that evokes the haunting melody of the same name, fabled to have caused over one hundred suicides in the 1930s. Before the... [More]
Starring: Joachim Krol, Stefano Dionisi, Ben Becker, Erica Marozsan
Director: Rolf Schubel
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Reviews for Gloomy Sunday
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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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Undoubtedly deserves to be added to the ranks of the best Holocaust films ever made. Full Review |
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B- |
It's old-fashioned, sometimes accomplished, syrupy and, at its intermittent best, absorbing. Full Review |
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B |
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 Full Review |
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3/4 |
This strange movie has a hard time balancing all these elements, but the film's enormous passion overcomes its more obvious melodrama. Full Review |
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7/10 |
It's hard to say which is more ravishing and alluring in the movie, Ms. Marozsan or the celebrated song. Full Review |
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76/100 |
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3.5/5 |
It's intelligent, well-acted and beautifully photographed. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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B |
It's a film worth seeking out, a good fit for a rainy Saturday or any other less-than-bright day of the week. Full Review |
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2/4 |
This is the kind of material you expect to find in a Lifetime cable-channel movie. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
It's a cracking good yarn, well-told and impeccably acted, especially by Król. Full Review |
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4/4 |
A superior soap opera not unlike what Douglas Sirk might have churned out in the 1950s. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
This film is both enchanting and sad, with the Holocaust as a background element that eventually moves to the front of the storyline with painful inevitability. Full Review |
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