SummaryEmploying 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... Read More
Directed By:Aleksandr Sokurov
Faust
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Generally Favorable
65
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Universal Acclaim
8.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
63% Positive
10 Reviews
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31% Mixed
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Nov 13, 2013
100
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.
Nov 12, 2013
80
Faust is not your great-granddaddy's selling-your-soul fable, but something new, a dreamy immersion into the messiness of myth, where hubris and desire can get lost in the chaos of time and retelling.
Nov 2, 2013
80
Alexander Sokurov’s riff on Goethe’s tragedy is a bewildering but blazingly styled fever-dream epic.
Nov 17, 2013
67
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.
Nov 15, 2013
60
German history and culture are among Sokurov's concerns in this visually compelling, intellectually scattershot movie.
Nov 14, 2013
40
Freely adapted from Goethe’s two-part play, Sokurov’s Faust is a work of crushing tedium, relieved only by the spare moments of beauty that pop out like dandelions in a washed-out landscape of oppression and grotesquerie.
Nov 21, 2013
30
Alexander Sokurov's Faust is a grueling side show of a film, a morbid, mightily uninvolving piece.
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Universal Acclaim
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Dec 4, 2013
9
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 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.
Production Company:
- Mass Media Development and Support Foundation
- Proline Film
- Russian Cinema Fund
Release Date:Nov 15, 2013
Duration:2 h 20 m
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Awards
Russian Guild of Film Critics
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
Nika Awards
• 4 Wins & 8 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
