Fresh
This extraordinary piece of artistry and craftsmanship integrates its dazzling special effects so seamlessly that they're indistinguishable from the film's narrative, poetry, and, above all, metaphysics.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Faust
The Voice of the Tempter.
1926 · 1h 46m · Not Rated
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Directed by
F. W. Murnau
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Faust
Overview
Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.
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91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As atmospheric and menacing a work as the expressionist movement ever produced.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Murnau's version of the story of the man who sold his soul to the Devil (Jannings) in return for youth is visually extraordinary but dismally uneven in terms of its dramatic effect.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
I sometimes feel, in this age of expert CGI, that I am being shown too much -- that technique is pushing aside artistry and imagination. The world of Faust is never intended to define a physical universe, but is a landscape of nightmares.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Still a classic example of eye-popping excess at a time when German filmmakers were among the most innovative in the world.
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
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