There’s a difference between elemental melodrama and superficial clichés, and gorgeous cinematography and period production design can only delay this recognizance for so long—and certainly not for two grueling hours.
The Girl and Death(Het Meisje en de Dood)
Netherlands, Russia, Germany · 2012
2h 7m
Director Jos Stelling
Starring Sylvia Hoeks, Renata Litvinova, Leonid Bichevin, Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Genre Drama, Romance
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The Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.
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Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Sumptuous visuals, vivid emotional beats and memorable turns by Bichevin and Hoeks effectively compensate for the verbal sparseness.
Movies made over fifty years ago by the likes of Max Ophuls were more animated, more angry, more radical in their critiques of such injustice. So watch "Letter From An Unknown Woman" before you even think of checking this out, is my advice to you.
It's time to return this old painting to the attic.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Pretty in a decaying-opulence sort of way and well cast, the film is more superficial than its nods to highbrow culture would suggest.
It’s unfortunate that Stelling and his cast aren’t able to lift the story much above mawkishness.
The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
The movie proves to be a fragile conceit. It’s as likely to fall apart and cause frustration as it is to induce a reverie.
The film’s emotional center rings coldly hollow, its star-crossed lovers coming off more like projected figures than flesh-and-blood players.
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