100
Salon by Andrew O'Hehir
One of the greatest of all Holocaust films.
Fateless (Sorstalanság)
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- Hungary,
- Germany,
- United Kingdom,
- Israel,
- France,
- United States
- 2005
- · 140m
Director
Lajos Koltai
Cast
Marcell Nagy,
Béla Dóra,
Bálint Péntek,
Áron Dimény,
Péter Fancsikai,
Zsolt Dér
Genre
War,
Drama
György Köves, a 14 year old Jewish boy who lives in Budapest, is the son of a merchant who is sent to a forced labor camp. He gets a job at a brickyard to make ends meet, but is apprehended on the way to work one day and sent to a concentration camp. His journey is a trial of faith, a test of character, and a fight for survival.
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What are critics saying?
100
New York Post
Profound and majestic.
100
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
This exceptional film features some of the most beautiful cinematography ever seen on film, in service of some of the most horrible images imaginable.
100
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
This is a Holocaust movie that is so relentlessly observed and so aware of woe that it never feels like it belongs to a genre.
100
New York Post by Kyle Smith
Profound and majestic.
100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
A hauntingly poetic triumph.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
In the juxtaposition of cataclysmic matter-of-fact misery and cinematic poetry, the filmmaker finds a calmly stunning way to convey the experience of living with death as something intimate, and, unnervingly, almost natural.
91
The A.V. Club by Noel Murray
Fateless is a strangely beautiful film, enhanced by a typically lyrical Ennio Morricone score and by Koltai's hazy, grayed-out images.
90
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Fateless is both haunting and poetic. It also is visually stunning.
90
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
It represents something stranger and, to those of us with only a secondhand or thirdhand knowledge of that history, more disturbing: a survivor's conviction that there were aspects of the experience itself that can only be described as beautiful.
90
Village Voice by J. Hoberman
Fateless has a remarkable absence of sentimentality. The movie is obviously artistic, but there are no cheap or superfluous effects. It's almost mystically translucent.
90
Variety by Eddie Cockrell
Exquisitely modulated and superbly mounted, the directing debut of skilled cinematographer Lajos Koltai went through an extended, unpredictable production history to emerge as a genuinely new way of looking at the Holocaust that is markedly different in tone from other such stories including "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist."
60
Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones
Long, heavy, and not particularly edifying Holocaust drama.
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