Rating of
2.5/4
Exhausting and Thought-Provoking Epic
mitchellyoung - wrote on 02/22/12
This long-winded movie/miniseries is an enigma - sometimes intriguing and sometimes plodding. The film's true star is Gunter Lamprecht, whose starring role wrings him through every spectrum of human emotion. The film's best scenes, to me, are in the surreal finale, which focuses the film's themes through the lenses of religious symbolism in an other-worldly visual palette. The darker moments bothered me, particularly the film's streak of misogyny, which is often glossed over without blinking an eye. As a whole, there probably is no reason for this movie to top out at 16 hours, but it's a thoroughly exhausting experience that, if nothing else, is thought-provoking and memorable.
