Malmkrog
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| MUBI | Release Date (Streaming): April 2, 2021 |
Starring:
Agathe Bosch, Diana Sakalauskaité, Frédéric Schulz-Richard, István Teglas, Judith State, Marina Palii, Simona Ghita, Sorin Dobrin, Ugo Broussot
Summary:
Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent. [MUBI]
The Film Stage
Feb 28, 2020
The vast majority of the film functions as a hypnotic if frankly monotonous dialectic (ruminations on Christ, honor, “we were just following orders,” war, love etc. that become more heated as time goes on) that is assured to alienate most anyone without a minor in philosophy or the vocabulary of academic text.
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The Playlist
Feb 14, 2022
Mar 26, 2021
Feb 28, 2020
Apr 8, 2021
Even if some segments are invigoratingly thought-provoking in the same manner that a young student feels engaging with classical thinkers for the first time, the format’s lack of stimuli beyond cutting between speakers soon turns tedious. In scenes conceived as static frames, Puiu plays with depth of field for slightly more visually layered results.
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Apr 1, 2021
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