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I May Destroy You
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Dirk Bogarde, looking natty and nerve-worn, is exactly right as the fissured Hermann, a chocolate manufacturer whose business has turned bitter. March 18, 2015 | Full Review…
Dirk Bogarde, looking natty and nerve-worn, is exactly right as the fissured Hermann, a chocolate manufacturer whose business has turned bitter.
John Skow
Certainly Dirk Bogarde's performance, although arch and mannered, is uncomfortably compelling. And the cinematography is undeniably striking. But I can't say I enjoyed it. March 18, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Certainly Dirk Bogarde's performance, although arch and mannered, is uncomfortably compelling. And the cinematography is undeniably striking. But I can't say I enjoyed it.
Wendy Ide
The first half is oppressive, cluttered, and funny, but as the film forsakes its artificial settings for more open spaces, it becomes pale and mechanical. March 18, 2015 | Full Review…
The first half is oppressive, cluttered, and funny, but as the film forsakes its artificial settings for more open spaces, it becomes pale and mechanical.
Dave Kehr
[It's] Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most obsessively arty movie and by no means his best. Even so, it is wildly distinctive. March 18, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
[It's] Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most obsessively arty movie and by no means his best. Even so, it is wildly distinctive.
Fassbinder films life in the cosseted class as a masque of glass and mirrors, replete with alluring deceptions and suave surfaces that belie volcanic passions. February 27, 2012 | Full Review…
Fassbinder films life in the cosseted class as a masque of glass and mirrors, replete with alluring deceptions and suave surfaces that belie volcanic passions.
Richard Brody
A superb surrealist noir. January 5, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A superb surrealist noir.
Peter Bradshaw
Despair does absolutely nothing worth doing, but it does succeed in one area where several hack directors before him failed: bagging a bad performance from Dirk Bogarde. December 12, 2017 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Despair does absolutely nothing worth doing, but it does succeed in one area where several hack directors before him failed: bagging a bad performance from Dirk Bogarde.
Elliott Stein
The resultant film is, he says, faithful to both Stoppard's script and Nabokov's novel; it is certainly not faithful to Fassbinder, who is here seen tripping over one style after another and ending up utterly ditched. March 18, 2015 | Full Review…
The resultant film is, he says, faithful to both Stoppard's script and Nabokov's novel; it is certainly not faithful to Fassbinder, who is here seen tripping over one style after another and ending up utterly ditched.
Ted Whitehead
Unpleasant but thoughtful and provocative psychodrama set in Berlin, in the 1930s. July 30, 2012 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Unpleasant but thoughtful and provocative psychodrama set in Berlin, in the 1930s.
Dennis Schwartz
Everything about Despair feels queasily off - the plot, the acting, the dialogue and the fussily over-decorated sets. January 10, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Everything about Despair feels queasily off - the plot, the acting, the dialogue and the fussily over-decorated sets.
Philip Kemp
Not one of [Fassbinder's] best. June 10, 2011 | Full Review…
Not one of [Fassbinder's] best.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Of the authorial trifecta that created Despair, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's voice is the most pronounced. June 7, 2011 | Full Review…
Of the authorial trifecta that created Despair, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's voice is the most pronounced.
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