"...It still looks so modern -- saving that there is no one around any more who can combine such flamboyant spectacle with such fluidity, dexterity, lightness, invention..." Sight and Sound "...Ophuls' camera swirls around, catching all the action and coarse pageantry, and the effect is invigorating..."Los Angeles Times "It is all of a piece from beginning to end: The mood, the music, the remarkably fluid camera movement, the sets, the costumes....The actors are in Ophuls' complete control, an additional element in his examination of the romantic myth."Chicago Sun-Times "[T]his work of overwhelming visual excess truly soars due to the director's legendarily meticulous and expressive camera movements."Film Comment "[A] masterpiece....It's in a league with CITIZEN KANE, THE RED SHOES, and other movies that operate on a higher plane of sophistication and creativity than their contemporaries." -- Grade: AA.V. Club27.2593
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"...It still looks so modern -- saving that there is no one around any more who can combine such flamboyant spectacle with such fluidity, dexterity, lightness, invention..." Sight and Sound "...Ophuls' camera swirls around, catching all the action and coarse pageantry, and the effect is invigorating..."Los Angeles Times "It is all of a piece from beginning to end: The mood, the music, the remarkably fluid camera movement, the sets, the costumes....The actors are in Ophuls' complete control, an additional element in his examination of the romantic myth."Chicago Sun-Times "[T]his work of overwhelming visual excess truly soars due to the director's legendarily meticulous and expressive camera movements."Film Comment "[A] masterpiece....It's in a league with CITIZEN KANE, THE RED SHOES, and other movies that operate on a higher plane of sophistication and creativity than their contemporaries." -- Grade: AA.V. Club27.2593
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"...The work still dazzles..." Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's stuff here to rival BOOGIE NIGHTS' sinuous opening shot, as Ophuls pirouettes his camera around and about amorous couples in 19th Century Vienna."Total Film27.2593
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"[This] film addresses fundamental questions about the author's responsibility to her/his creations..."Sight and Sound "[P]erhaps Ophuls's most abstract, most musical film. The frenzied resistance to the passage of time dramatized in the opening sequence gradually modulates into the becalmed, mature acceptance of the concluding episode."New York Times26.96087
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"...An elegant, visually opulent piece of work....One of the high points of French romantic cinema as well as a sublime piece of filmmaking..." Los Angeles Times "...It glitters and dazzles....The film is famous for its elaborate camera movements, its graceful style, its sets, its costumes....We sit in admiration of Ophuls' visual display, so fluid and intricate..." Chicago Sun-Times "...This elegant, ironic and wise romantic tragedy has quite a cult..."USA Today "[T]his 1953 study of obsessive love shows Max Ophuls at the height of his directorial powers." Uncut "A socialite hocks her diamonds to pay her shopping debts, sparking a series of lies, heartbreak, and tragedy....Savage and mesmerizing..." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly26.96087
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"Ophuls' masterful balance of viewpoints allows the viewer to perceive the long flashback that constitutes the film's main body as both a literal embodiment of Lisa's romantic fantasy and a critique of said romanticism."Sight and Sound0.5168993
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"Ophuls' masterful balance of viewpoints allows the viewer to perceive the long flashback that constitutes the film's main body as both a literal embodiment of Lisa's romantic fantasy and a critique of said romanticism."Sight and Sound0.4307494
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"One of the animation events of the year....[The package] restores 60 classics starring the spinach-eating gob gloriously." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly9.877185
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"[T]he glistening fantasy sequences of the Scherzo and Nocturne, mainly created in camera by Hal Mohr, still breathtaking -- true fairy magic, over the top and beyond."Sight and Sound9.821356
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"[The] tech credits are thoroughly professional, especially Tamar Gadish's observant production design, which works extremely well with Seamus Tierney's understated cinematography."Hollywood Reporter "A sensitive film of much charm....ADAM is a great-looking, beguiling film with its burnished Manhattan settings and lovely score."Los Angeles Times "Hugh Dancy hits it just right as Adam, a science whiz with Asperger's. His portrayal is heartfelt and appealing."USA Today "Mr. Dancy is credibly eccentric yet still accessible. The humor is delicate, and the performances sweet and sure..."New York Times "Adam succeeds at getting inside its hero's mind and, more impressively still, gives us entre to his singular soul."Wall Street Journal "ADAM is sweet, meticulous, and, at times, sort of clever..."Entertainment Weekly "Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne, he from England, she from Australia, have seamless American accents, and make a pleasant couple."Chicago Sun-Times "[An] engaging romance....Byrne's performance makes Beth's weaknesses as real as her strengths."Washington Post9.821356
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"[A] sprawling, difficult, powerful film....As grim and brutal as it often is, A WOMAN IN BERLIN is also lively and observant, stocked with vivid minor characters and well-observed scenes that capture glints of comedy in the midst of desperation."New York Times 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "A WOMAN IN BERLIN is a fascinating hybrid that speaks eloquently to the unspeakable nature of war and the difficulty of assigning culpability and standing in judgment."Box Office "[T]his powerfully told, devastating film....Everything you want in adult narrative cinema: It's intelligent, provocative and intensely dramatic."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "The film is well-acted, with restraint, by Hoss and Sidikhin....The physical production is convincing."Chicago Sun-Times "A WOMAN IN BERLIN joins such wonderful recent films as THE LIVES OF OTHERS and THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX as a clear-eyed portrait of a highly charged chapter in Germany's history..."Washington Post9.757841
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