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This modern take on the silent genre has none of the polish of, say, The Artist, but director Janez Burger's attempt has some powerful moments. Sep 23, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This modern take on the silent genre has none of the polish of, say, The Artist, but director Janez Burger's attempt has some powerful moments.
Kate Muir
By no means perfect, Burger's Silent Sonata is an oddly mesmerising piece of performance art. Mar 20, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
By no means perfect, Burger's Silent Sonata is an oddly mesmerising piece of performance art.
Ben Nicholson
Janez Burger has chosen to tell a dark and alienating story in a dark and alienating way. The combination of style and substance makes the viewer recoil. Aug 10, 2018 | Full Review…
Janez Burger has chosen to tell a dark and alienating story in a dark and alienating way. The combination of style and substance makes the viewer recoil.
Sarah Manvel
There is some beautiful imagery along the way but the conceit seems forced. May 9, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
There is some beautiful imagery along the way but the conceit seems forced.
Geoffrey Macnab
Slovenian filmmaker Janez Burger's dialogue-free poetic fable doesn't dig deep (circus as metaphor for life, thanks Fellini) but there's a gentle surreal charm that's hard to resist. May 5, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Slovenian filmmaker Janez Burger's dialogue-free poetic fable doesn't dig deep (circus as metaphor for life, thanks Fellini) but there's a gentle surreal charm that's hard to resist.
Philip Kemp
A Fellini-esque silent fable with tackles the horrors of war with a refreshing sense of the absurd. May 4, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A Fellini-esque silent fable with tackles the horrors of war with a refreshing sense of the absurd.
Simon Crook
With enigmatic digressions into the nature of the afterlife, Silent Sonata is a visually sumptuous and moving little picture in which volumes of meaning are passed along - between characters, and also to us, the audience - wordlessly. Aug 17, 2011 | Rating: 3/5
With enigmatic digressions into the nature of the afterlife, Silent Sonata is a visually sumptuous and moving little picture in which volumes of meaning are passed along - between characters, and also to us, the audience - wordlessly.
Simon Miraudo
An elegant exercise in classic European magical realism. Apr 4, 2011 | Full Review…
An elegant exercise in classic European magical realism.
Mark Adams
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