Proteus Reviews

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Is it a movie or the best-designed episode of Nova ever?

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The biggest failing of the movie is that it focuses on the scientific experiments and the facts of the case instead of the emotion of the situation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The movie's pretty much a stinker.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Homophobia and hyprocisy, history and legend, racism and jealousy, cruelty and love all figure in -- and prove too much.

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Carries an air of forced-wit experimentation that never quite gets its anachronisms in order.

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Script doesn't sufficiently fill in the blanks left by historical record regarding the personalities involved, which robs the central relationship of emotional (let alone tragic) depth.

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A heavy, pretentious and derivative film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A challenging, flawed look at a little-known slice of history.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Clearly attempting to make the story relevant for contemporary times, they use a variety of stylistic devices that serves to have the opposite effect, distancing us from a story that might have been far more compelling if rendered in a direct fashion.

Problematic on almost all levels.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Frankly steamed sex scenes spice the film from John Greyson and Jack Lewis, gaining it entry to gay festivals but only momentarily rousing it from the fetid doldrums of a fatiguingly 'instructive' story.

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The problem with Proteus is that the issues tend to overwhelm the story, and one is never fully engaged in the narrative.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

... the story of lust, love and betrayal intriguingly bemoans racism and prejudice of bygone times while peppering the 'history' with more modern references ...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Involving and affecting even if it is not completely coherent or fully realized.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

An intelligently rendered film (shot on video) that doesn't seek to make its central characters overtly sympathetic even as it stresses the human rights so thoughtlessly or deliberately denied them.

| Original Score: 3/5

David Lebrun's wonderful documentary brings Haeckel's artistic and scientific triumph to life through a beautifully written narration.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Grounded by the stark physicality of the location and the emotional charge generated by those prison-bound passions (Jean Genet would have approved).

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4