Protektor
Film Movement | Release Date: August 5, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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6
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0
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The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenAug 1, 2011
Young director Marek Najbrt, commendably, is not interested in wringing easy tears from the European experience of World War II. In the handsome drama Protektor, he brings a cool, noirish slant to a story of Czech artists and intellectuals as they accommodate and to a lesser extent resist the German occupiers. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineVadim RizovAug 13, 2011
The strong central hour - full of beautifully assembled linking montages and a refreshingly offbeat sense of dramatic timing that could pass for comedy - makes up for a lot, marking Najbrt as a filmmaker to watch. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAug 5, 2011
Though it remains a little too enigmatic, Marek Najbrt's Holocaust drama is atmospheric enough to keep us edgy on its heroine's behalf. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 4, 2011
Dipping in and out of luminous black and white, Protektor has a distancing glamour that prevents the story from digging in. Burdened by a central relationship so lacking in passion that its fate becomes negligible, the film's narrative feels trivialized by jaunty musical fragments and repetitive cycling and rowing motifs that belabor Emil's metaphorical treadmill of appeasement. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichelle OrangeAug 2, 2011
Najbrt gets the look and feel of noir fatalism down, but storytelling that alternates between roughshod and lethargic means the film doesn't hold together as much more than pretty fragments. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierAug 1, 2011
Engendering an experience both visually slick and narratively sprawling, the apropos-of-nothing professionalism of Protektor often feels more like branding than filmmaking. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearAug 2, 2011
Protektor is simply another in a long line of diluted stories about life during wartime, one whose diminished returns only further trivialize a legacy of real-life horror. Read full review
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