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Poland, Ireland · 2015
1h 21m
Director Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring Richard Dormer, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Andrzej Chyra, Dawid Ogrodnik
Genre Drama, Thriller
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A seemingly unrelated cast of characters experience irreversible events over the course of one fateful day. The lives of a hot dog vendor, sleazy director, wannabe thief, aspiring actress, jealous husband and more are intertwined in this whirlwind thriller that examines how everything can change in just 11 minutes.
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
You could call Mr. Skolimowski, who is 77, an old dog, and while the multistranded, chronologically intricate narrative conceit of 11 Minutes isn’t exactly a new trick, it’s one he pulls off with devilish panache and startling impact.
Jerzy Skolimowski's formal control over the material is so masterful that the textual particulars are revealed to be beside the point.
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
This posturing, airless exercise is wearing rather than exciting.
The film’s pitfalls lie in the style-over-substance route that has befallen many films that have such an annoyingly gimmicky framing device at its center.
Given how much of 11 Minutes takes place in the glibly heightened realm of the Hollywood-molded actioner, its various fragments are rather short on intrigue, whether considered alone or in simmering context.
For a movie that is all about accumulation, it adds up to very little, and for a story all about connectedness, 11 minutes, intermittently enjoyable though it may be, never connects.
The dénouement when it comes doubles down on the madness and 11 Minutes is never boring, but neither is it quite as revolutionary as it thinks it is.
Screen International by Jonathan Romney
Ultimately, 11 Minutes is as much a virtuoso party piece as anything - but it shows a veteran director in youthful form, clearly having a ball.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
A low-bore DeLillo-ness plays at the movie's edges, but does it aggregate into a substantial something? Not really, but the traces of postmodern dread, however Haneke-lite it all may be (isn't everything Haneke-lite?), can tickle your short hairs if you're prone.
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
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