Faust

Name: Faust
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: November 15, 2013
Duration: 140 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Antje Lewald, Anton Adasinsky, Florian Br, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla

2013

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Leisure Time Features | Release Date: November 15, 2013 | Not Rated

Starring: Antje Lewald, Anton Adasinsky, Florian Br, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla, Isolda Dychauk, Johannes Zeiler, Sigurður Skúlason

Summary: Employing elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust, played by Johannes Zeiler, is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe (IsoldaEmploying elaborate camera movements, a dense soundscape, intricate production design and spectacular locations, FAUST conjures up a unique and phantasmagoric vision of the Faustian legend. Faust, played by Johannes Zeiler, is a man in search of the ideals of the Enlightenment but he becomes obsessed with the lovely Magarethe (Isolda Dychauk) and eventually sells his soul to the Devil (Anton Adasinsky) also known as the Moneylender, so that he may possess her. Comic, cosmic, painterly and stunningly beautiful scenes abound as the Devil takes Faust on a strange, unforgettable journey that ends in Hell itself. [Leisure Time Features]… Expand

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 140 min

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Nov 13, 2013

It manages to convey a desire for power in abstract terms, divorced from material gain or a need to be admired. What’s more, it manages to do it with energy and a good deal of weird humor. Read full review

Deborah Young

Nov 2, 2013

This is far from a dull, academic work and the fast-paced talk is matched by swiftly changing scenes full of vibrant visuals. Life bubbles out of each frame in a grungy, foul-smelling rush. Read full review

Joshua Rothkopf

Nov 12, 2013

Often, Faust plays like a lost cousin to Andrei Tarkovsky’s haunted Stalker (1979), catnip for the slow-and-low crowd. Settle in, because this requires your charity, but you’ll dream it all back up the next night. Read full review

The Playlist Nikola Grozdanovic

Nov 17, 2013

If there are strokes of genius in this film, they are buried deep under the grime of the aesthetics and the unrelenting dialogue that never seems to stop for air. Read full review

Mark Jenkins

Nov 15, 2013

German history and culture are among Sokurov's concerns in this visually compelling, intellectually scattershot movie. Read full review

Time Out London Dave Calhoun

Nov 2, 2013

It has a rigorous, even unrelenting, grey, green and brown palette and, narratively, it’s tough to penetrate. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Nov 21, 2013

Alexander Sokurov's Faust is a grueling side show of a film, a morbid, mightily uninvolving piece. Read full review

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LowbrowCinema

Dec 4, 2013

Audacious, outrageous and pretty brilliant, Sokurov's FAUST is like a Bruegel painting come to life but then the director continually skews reality through rapid lens and color changes. The film is at once realistic and totally artificial. Recalling the dictates and style of German regieAudacious, outrageous and pretty brilliant, Sokurov's FAUST is like a Bruegel painting come to life but then the director continually skews reality through rapid lens and color changes. The film is at once realistic and totally artificial. Recalling the dictates and style of German regie theater, Sokurov brings the aesthetic to film brilliantly. But unlike Goethe's source material in which knowledge is gold, Sokurov takes us into a world in which life and death don't really matter. Knowledge and stupidly are equally unimportant and nothing has any meaning. FAUST is a challenging and rewarding film that dazzles in its pessimism.… Expand

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