State Funeral
MUBI | Release Date (Streaming): May 7, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
VarietyJay WeissbergJun 2, 2021
Both as film and as history, State Funeral stands as a canonical work. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMay 27, 2021
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s clinical and fascinating 135-minute assembly of this priceless archive is a categorically weird, thrillingly immersive distillation of four days of official, cultish pomp and mourning for one of the 20th century’s biggest monsters. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyMay 7, 2021
A film like State Funeral is a warning. History has lessons for us about what does, and does not, work, in politics, in leadership, in culture itself. We would do well to listen. We would do well to watch. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMay 27, 2021
Loznitsa’s essay raises questions about the nature and ideological mechanisms of totalitarian myth-making, and the nature of public grief as propagandist display. Read full review
80
Film ThreatRay LoboMay 27, 2021
These iconic images seem endowed with a sort of “livingness,” as if they have acquired special powers. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyMay 21, 2021
A fascinating and invaluable document for all of its considerable run time, State Funeral is an occasion worthy of the title. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 20, 2021
The faces are the most intriguing thing. Loznitsa gives us a montage of inscrutability and repressed anxiety. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 6, 2021
Composed entirely of footage shot at the time in various parts of the Soviet Union, the film is a haunting amalgam of official pomp and everyday experience, the double image of a totalitarian government and the people in whose name it ruled. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungMay 27, 2021
This cannily edited selection of rare archive footage reveals the peak of the people’s mind-born terror, and it is the beginning of the end. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMay 27, 2021
With a running time of 135 minutes, it eventually becomes exhausting—but that is partly the point of a film about a population going through the motions, of a mass event with a hole where the middle should be. Read full review
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