Faust (2011)
First screened in January 2014
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov. Cast: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich, Florian Brückner, Antje Lewald, Hanna Schygulla, Eva-Maria Kurz, Joel Kirby, Siguræur Skûlason, Maxim Mehmet, Andreas Schmidt, Oliver Bootz. Screenplay: Aleksandr Sokurov and Marina Koreneva (based on the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the novel by Yuri Arabov).
Twitter Capsule: Intoxicating, even if, like a lot of intoxicants, it puts you to sleep a little. Painterly, imaginative, and sells the myth.

Photo © 2011 Proline Film, © 2013 Leisure Time Features
Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: A–


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