Rotten
So relentlessly oppressive it suffocates its potentially strong themes and characterizations.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
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Four Minutes
Overview
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.
Director and cast
- Chris Kraus Director
- Monica Bleibtreu as Traude Krüger
- Hannah Herzsprung as Jenny von Loeben
- Sven Pippig as Mütze
- Richy Müller as Kowalski
- Jasmin Tabatabai as Ayse
- Stefan Kurt as Direktor Meyerbeer
- Vadim Glowna as Gerhard von Loeben
- Nadja Uhl as Nadine Hoffmann
- Peter Davor as Journalist Wahrig
- Edita Malovčić as Traude, jung
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's part Jerry Lee Lewis and part Glenn Gould.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
A women-behind-bars plot seething with lesbianism, incest, hanging and catfights -- on paper, at least, Four Minutes promises more fun than a Roger Corman marathon.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
Pitched at deafening hysteria, Chris Kraus's film might have fared better in moderato.
Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York
Fresh
Four Minutes is simply not to be missed.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
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