Gloomy Sunday (Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod) Reviews
ColeSmithey.com
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.
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| Original Score: B
Princeton Town Topics
Undoubtedly deserves to be added to the ranks of the best Holocaust films ever made.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Oregonian
It's old-fashioned, sometimes accomplished, syrupy and, at its intermittent best, absorbing.
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| Original Score: B-
Murphy's Movie Reviews
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
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| Original Score: B
Combustible Celluloid
This strange movie has a hard time balancing all these elements, but the film's enormous passion overcomes its more obvious melodrama.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movie Metropolis
It's hard to say which is more ravishing and alluring in the movie, Ms. Marozsan or the celebrated song.
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| Original Score: 7/10
It's intelligent, well-acted and beautifully photographed.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
EricDSnider.com
It's a film worth seeking out, a good fit for a rainy Saturday or any other less-than-bright day of the week.
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| Original Score: B
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It's a cracking good yarn, well-told and impeccably acted, especially by Król.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
A superior soap opera not unlike what Douglas Sirk might have churned out in the 1950s.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Atlantic City Weekly
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 | Original Score: 3.5/4
Philadelphia Inquirer
Top Critic| Original Score: 3/4
Its old-fashioned romanticism is heady, and the relationships among the characters are intriguing.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Orlando Weekly
Director/co-writer Rölf Schöbel's tight, philosophically sound narrative shows the essential relation of nationalist offenses to personal demons like lust, envy and blind resentment.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Zap2it.com
For amazing performances in one of the best foreign offerings of the year, look for "Gloomy Sunday," but don't expect it to cheer you up.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
One Guy's Opinion
A wonderfully entertaining, old-fashioned melodrama of love and war.
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| Original Score: B
Nitrate Online
ou'll have to amble through Gloomy Sunday's less than remarkable, albeit haunting, first half (but it) swells up to a fitting bookend and zinger of a finish.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
