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Faust 2011 123movies

Faust 2011 123movies

Sep. 08, 2011140 Min.
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Watch: Faust 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – A wise man sells his soul to Mefistofeles a Satan helper recognizing knowledge will bring no happiness to human life. A German Romanticism’ portrait, on how love could overcome reason. Based on the true life of Dr. Johannes Faust, a German alchemist, who is supposed to have been killed when trying to discover the philosopher’s stone..
Plot: Faust inhabits an earthy, 19th-century world of primitive autopsies and medical rituals. He becomes obsessed with the beautiful Margarete and desperately turns to a physically grotesque moneylender to conjure their union.
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Ratings:

6.5/10 Votes: 5,520
66% | RottenTomatoes
65/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 171 Popularity: 8.616 | TMDB

Reviews:

Ugly and unpleasant–but isn´t that the point?
Compared to an aesthetic depiction of something like The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, also a story of corruption, this ugly, often grotestque film, loosely based on Goethe´s Faust, is disappointing. It was a slog to get through because it was so drab and disgusting. Dust and darkness everywhere. Gross, deformed characters. Filth, misery, poverty, disease. Rats. Altogether quite unpleasant to watch. Still, I have to say that the director succeeds in creating a film as depressing as its subject: the corruption of a human being and the selling of his soul.
Review By: skepticskeptical
Absorbing and reasonably interesting Gothic melodrama, somewhat over-rated by a number of gushing critics.
Where to begin with a review of Aleksandr Sokurov’s Faust? Loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 19th century play, this Russian film resolutely defies description on normal terms. Sokurov adorns his film with sumptuous visuals throughout but adopts a very idiosyncratic storytelling technique which will prove baffling for most viewers. This is not a film to be watched lightly – you will need to be wearing your “intellectual hat” if you’re to make it through two and a half hours of Sokurov’s exceptionally erudite movie-making style.

In the 19th century Heinrich Faust (Johannes Zeiler), a tormented scientist, desperately seeks answers to questions that hang tantalisingly beyond his grasp. Often he hires local grave robbers to dig up corpses so that he can dissect them, exploring the inside of the human body to satisfy his gruesome curiosity. What are the various organs for? What makes the body work? Is there such a thing as a soul and where is it to be found? Hopelessly disillusioned by his father’s fake cure business, which mostly causes the death of patients rather than their recovery, Faust decides that he has had enough of spending his life chasing enlightenment. He is about to commit suicide when he is interrupted by the arrival of devilish deformed racketeer Mauricius (Anton Adasinsky). Mauricius leads Faust on a grotesque tour of the town, taking him into the underbelly of the community and tempting him with various sinful pleasures. He manipulates Faust at every opportunity, involving him in indulgence, lust and murder. Soon Faust finds himself infatuated with young washer-woman Margarete (Isolda Dychauk), and Mauricius eventually reveals that Faust can have her if he agrees to sign away his soul.

The film is remarkable to look at, with an array of amazing sets and locations beautifully captured by cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel. The characters consist of a gallery of peasants, rogues and freaks, all performed evocatively enough by the actors but too obscurely written for the audience to truly identify with them. Indeed, therein lies the main fault with Faust it’s not just the characters but the story itself that is too obscurely drawn for the film’s own good. Faust won considerable admiration on the international circuit, crowning its achievements by becoming the recipient of the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It certainly has its strengths, such as the splendidly creepy performance of Adasinsky as the story’s Mephistopheles figure, and the wonderfully evocative photography. However, one would have to question whether the film deserves to have been showered with the accolades that it has received. Things like confusing subtitling, perplexing dialogue and unclear story development drag it down somewhat and make one wonder quite why it has earned such towering praise. Having said that, Faust is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Faustian literature (e.g. Goethe’s play, Thomas Mann’s novel, or even the original Elizabethan play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe). Just be sure to prepare yourself in advance for a very heavy-going experience and don’t allow yourself to anticipate some sort of extraordinary experience as promised by the glowing reviews. A life-changing, mind-blowing masterpiece, no. A flawed but interesting Gothic melodrama, yes.

Review By: barnabyrudge

Other Information:

Original Title Faust
Release Date 2011-09-08
Release Year 2011

Original Language de
Runtime 2 hr 20 min (140 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 58132
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Director Aleksandr Sokurov
Writer Yuriy Arabov, Aleksandr Sokurov, Marina Koreneva
Actors Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk
Country Russia
Awards 15 wins & 26 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Master Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Arricam ST, Zeiss Master Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Barrandov Laboratore, Prague, Czech Republic (dailies), Generator Post, Helsinki, Finland (digital intermediate), Technicolor, London, UK (prints)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, D-Cinema, DCP

Faust 2011 123movies
Original title Faust
TMDb Rating 6.681 171 votes

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