90
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Superbly conveys its themes of despair and lost opportunities.
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Melancholian 3 huonetta)
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- Finland,
- Denmark,
- Germany,
- Sweden
- 2004
- · 106m
Director
Pirjo Honkasalo
Cast
Pirkko Saisio
Genre
Documentary
This documentary presents a searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict and its brutal effect on Chechen and Russian children. In three chapters, the film documents the impact of the conflict in a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town, and a children's refugee camp.
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90
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The film is a requiem for the living as well as for the dead.
88
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
An achingly beautiful look at the most tragic victims of the longtime war in Chechnya: children.
80
Variety
Walloping gut punch The 3 Rooms of Melancholia offers a harrowing docu look at war and militarism's wounds, as seen through the eyes of Russian and Chechen children.
80
Salon by Andrew O'Hehir
A prodigious, almost spiritual experience, a luminous, challenging art movie out of the Tarkovsky school that happens to be about a real war and its effects on real children.
80
Variety by Leslie Felperin
Walloping gut punch The 3 Rooms of Melancholia offers a harrowing docu look at war and militarism's wounds, as seen through the eyes of Russian and Chechen children.
63
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Consistently moving but never quite coalesces into a strongly coherent whole.
60
Chicago Reader
Honkasalo's bleak, meditative 2004 documentary, about children who have been orphaned or dispossessed as a result of the Russian-Chechen conflict, eschews any attempts to make sense out of this long-running war.
60
Chicago Reader by Joshua Katzman
Honkasalo's bleak, meditative 2004 documentary, about children who have been orphaned or dispossessed as a result of the Russian-Chechen conflict, eschews any attempts to make sense out of this long-running war.
50
The A.V. Club by Noel Murray
Viewers will either be transported by Honkasalo's somber artistry or begging for someone to stick a gasoline-filled syringe into their veins...As art, 3 Rooms is magnificent, but as a viewing experience, it's almost impossible.
50
Village Voice by Joshua Land
Frustratingly little here grapples with the day-to-day realities of life in Chechnya and the surrounding areas.
50
Film Threat
Shows that war is horrible, but fails to fully understand the people who experience the horror beyond their sad exteriors.
50
Film Threat by Jeremy Mathews
Shows that war is horrible, but fails to fully understand the people who experience the horror beyond their sad exteriors.
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