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It strays from the source, but whatever it might lack in fidelity, Aleksandr Sokurov's lengthy, ambitious Faust more than makes up in fresh energy and ideas.
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A grueling side show of a film, a morbid, mightily uninvolving piece ... Nov 21, 2013 | Full Review…
A grueling side show of a film, a morbid, mightily uninvolving piece ...
Gary Goldstein
Compared to many Sokurov films, this one has an enlivening paradoxicality: it's morbid but upbeat, grim yet rapturous. Nov 15, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Compared to many Sokurov films, this one has an enlivening paradoxicality: it's morbid but upbeat, grim yet rapturous.
Godfrey Cheshire
The movie expands in its frame, surpassing simple comprehension and continuing to grow in your mind - and perhaps to blow it - long after it's over. Nov 14, 2013 | Full Review…
The movie expands in its frame, surpassing simple comprehension and continuing to grow in your mind - and perhaps to blow it - long after it's over.
A.O. Scott
Faust's worldview may be esoteric, but its vision is lucid. Nov 14, 2013 | Full Review…
Faust's worldview may be esoteric, but its vision is lucid.
Mark Jenkins
Aleksandr Sokurov's demented, gunky take on the Faust legend tumbles from one scene into the next with loping, loopy energy. Nov 14, 2013 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Aleksandr Sokurov's demented, gunky take on the Faust legend tumbles from one scene into the next with loping, loopy energy.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Settle in, because this requires your charity, but you'll dream it all back up the next night. Nov 12, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Settle in, because this requires your charity, but you'll dream it all back up the next night.
Joshua Rothkopf
For those looking to leave reality behind for some exquisitely-crafted existentialist musings, Faust is a must-see, operatic arthouse event. Jan 7, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
For those looking to leave reality behind for some exquisitely-crafted existentialist musings, Faust is a must-see, operatic arthouse event.
Daniel Green
If you like your cinema absurd and grotesque, Sokurov's Faust won't disappoint. Aug 27, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
If you like your cinema absurd and grotesque, Sokurov's Faust won't disappoint.
Isabel Stevens
Surviving 139 minutes of this barrage of profuse but elusive imagery and sound is something of an ordeal. Jul 6, 2018 | Full Review…
Surviving 139 minutes of this barrage of profuse but elusive imagery and sound is something of an ordeal.
Tony Rayns
Sokurov's [Faust] has a distinctly human scale, yet he flattens the tale's meaning. Apr 11, 2018 | Full Review…
Sokurov's [Faust] has a distinctly human scale, yet he flattens the tale's meaning.
Ela Bittencourt
Aleksandr Sokurov's tetralogy of power, previously dedicated to real biographical subjects (Lenin, Hitler, Hirohito), unexpectedly concludes with a legendary fictitious man: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust. Nov 16, 2017 | Full Review…
Aleksandr Sokurov's tetralogy of power, previously dedicated to real biographical subjects (Lenin, Hitler, Hirohito), unexpectedly concludes with a legendary fictitious man: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust.
Daniel Kasman
The ying-yang approach, remarkably different from any other interpretation of the source I've seen, is equally invigorating and frustrating, but in the best way. Oct 4, 2017 | Full Review…
The ying-yang approach, remarkably different from any other interpretation of the source I've seen, is equally invigorating and frustrating, but in the best way.
Derek Smith
A medieval doctor who's bored with life sells his soul to a Moneylender in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman. A fairly surreal and occasionally confusing version of Goethe's classic, Aleksandr Sokurov's adaptation is rewarding, but not intended for literary novices.
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