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Želary

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Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria · 2003
Rated R · 2h 30m
Director Ondřej Trojan
Starring Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Jaroslava Adamová, Miroslav Donutil
Genre Drama, Romance

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.

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Village Voice by

Zelary strands its protagonists in a hermetically sealed world where time runs in place. It's a feeling that viewers of this two-and-a-half-hour epic will come to know all too well.

80

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

It has a familiar, lived-in feel, and if its observations of rural life at a time of political turmoil don't feel terribly original, they are nonetheless absorbing and sometimes powerful.

80

Variety by Eddie Cockrell

Managing to be at once epic and intimate, Zelary matches a resilient urban woman against a compassionate rural man in the spectacular Moravian countryside during World War II. Results rep a triumph of regional filmmaking, but in the David Lean tradition.

80

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

It's a convincing romantic drama, written, directed and acted with so much skill it's able to break loose from its conventional moorings and become more effective, more moving than we anticipated.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

The story feels a bit more episodic as it proceeds, but for most of the two-hour running time it flows at an earthbound tempo, thanks to Trojan's assured, unobtrusive direction.

70

The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann

The tension with which the picture starts soon dissipates, the contrast between Eliska's background and her present place is lost, and the film plods into a tale of village life, spiced only occasionally with a hint of German threat.

50

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

It's rather sweet and life-affirming, although the transformation from sophisticate to peasant happens too conveniently and quickly.

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