Babeldom

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Babeldom

2012

1h 30m

Drama

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Two lovers try to communicate while living apart in a massive city.

Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Mar 8, 2013

3/5

Perhaps it's a nightmarish vision of a world gone askance. Whatever it is, Babeldom is a visual treat.

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Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Mar 7, 2013

3/5

As a philosophical statement it lacks freshness, and voiceover artist Mark Caven's overcooked delivery doesn't help. One for fans of the form, perhaps.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Mar 7, 2013

3/5

Paul Bush's debut feature-length film is a fascinating meditation on the cities of the future.

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Chris Fennell

CineVue

Feb 9, 2019

3/5

At its best, Babeldom recalls Chris Marker's La Jetée, Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera -- but like the modern city, is harsh, unyielding and emotionally distant.

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Scotsman

Apr 8, 2013

3/5

Ambitious, gorgeous, and often as impenetrable as an algebraic equation.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

Mar 10, 2013

Mostly predictable pessimistic stuff, lacking anything humane (in the manner of say Julien Temple's recent film London: The Modern Babylon) or informed by Dickensian gusto.

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Synopsis

Two lovers try to communicate while living apart in a massive city.

Director: Paul Bush
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 30m

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